Capitol Hill Links
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House Appropriations Committee
[House Committee on Education and Workforce]
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Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
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Federal Agency Links
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Administration on Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Disability and Health
Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
[disAbility]
ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
Federal Resource Center for Special Education
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[IDEA Policy]
[IDEA Practices]
National Council on Disability
[NICHCY]
President's Committee on Mental Retardation
U.S. Department of Justice ADA Home Page
White House Conference on Mental Health
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Lobbying Links
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ADAPT
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[capwiz]
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Key Special Ed and Disability Laws
Also check out legislative information on the the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS web site
IDEA '97: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, as amended in 1997
"Provides grants to states to help them pay for educational services for children with disabilities. Changes improved procedures for quickly removing dangerous students from the classroom, and consolidated 18 discretionary programs into six. Funding for IDEA has been increased by more than $500 million, the largest increase in the education budget. For the first time since the original law was enacted, the local share of spending for special education costs could be reduced."
-- House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Education Flexibility Partnership Act: signed into law April 29, 1999
"All 50 states will be eligible to waive federal education regulations and better use federal aid to address local education priorities. This bill cuts the strings that keep our children from a better education. At the same time, schools that receive these waivers will be held accountable for achieving results."
-- Rep. Bill Goodling (R-Pa.), bill sponsor
ADA: The Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990
"The continuing existence of unfair and unnecessary discrimination and prejudice denies people with disabilities the opportunity to compete on an equal basis and to pursue those opportunities for which our free society is justifiably famous, and costs the United States billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses resulting from dependency and nonproductivity."
-- text of law
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