PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) -- As it gets to a month of the federal government shutdown, regional superintendents worry that with no federal dollars flowing, Central Illinois special education programs could be impacted.

According to NPR, majority of the staff in the U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services were laid off on Oct. 13. The only people left are the top officials.

Those layoffs, the continued government shutdown, and further budget cuts to the Department of Education, have made Peoria County and McLean County regional superintendents anxious.

"The concern is that special ed funding in particular for students is a large portion of a lot of our district's budgets," Peoria County Regional Superintendent George McKenna said.

"If it comes out that perhaps that money

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