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ESEA, APPROPRIATIONS BILLS KEEP SPECIAL ED UNDERFUNDED

WASHINGTON, January 20, 2002 -- After the special ed community came tantalizingly close to getting a commitment from Congress to pay the whole bill for federally mandated special ed services, the final version of the Elementary and Secondary Education reauthorization bill emerged from last fall's behind-the-scenes wrangling with no promise of adequate special ed funding. With the ESEA debates finally closed, Congress followed a week later with an $8.67 billion special ed funding package, nearly $9 billion short of what the states need from the federal coffer.CLICK TO TURN TO NEXT PAGE
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button to outside web pageFEDERAL SPECIAL ED CHIEFS EXHORT STATE DIRECTORS TO WORK, LOBBY HARDER
May 16, 2000
button to outside web pageNINE STATES GET NEW GRANTS UNDER IDEA
May 10, 2000
button to outside web pageINCLUSION UP SLIGHTLY, STUDENTS RECEIVING SERVICES UP 3%, DEPT. OF EDUCATION SAYS
April 11, 2000
button to outside web pageNEW OSEP DIRECTOR: IMPROVING SPECIAL ED SERVICES IS DIFFICULT BUT DO-ABLE
February 4, 2000
button to outside web pageFORMER KENTUCKY EDUCATION COMMISSIONER TO HEAD U.S. SPECIAL ED PROGRAMS
December 16, 1999
button to outside web pageDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PUTS GUARD AT OSEP HELM
August 20, 1999
button to outside web pageMULTI-YEAR STUDY LOOKS AT SPECIAL ED SPENDING
August 11, 1999

 

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