§ 2547-a. Day care support services. The commissioner shall allocate
up to one million dollars of federal funds for purposes of establishing
two or more demonstration programs for the provision of day care support
services for eligible children which may include the use of
paraprofessionals to work with one or more children with disabilities
within the same setting. The commissioner, in consultation with other
appropriate state agencies, shall establish criteria for the selection
of demonstration sites for such services, such criteria to include, but
not be limited to, geographic distribution, the disability severity of
children to be served by such a program and the availability of similar
services from other sources.