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House Restores Funding Cuts for Special Education for Now

By Charles Fox

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The House voted to restore the $557 million cuts for special education funding. It is not time to celebrate quite yet. First, the budget bills are far from final and there may yet be cuts before this process is over. Second, as CEC, a lobby group for educational issues, stated; "it amounts to robbing Peter to pay Paul. That?s because under the [funding] amendment, the funds restored to special education will be taken from other [general] education programs."  Taking money out of general education funding will have a negative effect on students with special needs when they are in general education settings. President Obama's budget proposal contemplates modest increases in education funding. I will keep you posted on the budget battles as this unfolds so we can keep up the pressure on Congress.

 

Full post as published by Special Education Law Blog on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).

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