Convert special education funding into a block grant run by Health and Human Services
What the document says“Most IDEA funding should be converted into a no-strings formula block grant targeted at students with disabilities”
The chapter proposes distributing the money directly to local education agencies through the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, and moving the department's disability discrimination enforcement work to the Justice Department.
What the document actually says“Most IDEA funding should be converted into a no-strings formula block grant targeted at students with disabilities”
Most of this money should go out as a block grant. It should carry no strings.
Federal money helps schools teach children with disabilities. The book says it should go straight to school districts. Another department would send it.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14191, signed January 29, 2025, directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on whether and how states receiving block grants for families and children, including the Child Care and Development Block Grant, can use them to expand educational choice. It shares the words block grant and Health and Human Services with the proposal but concerns child care money and school choice. Nothing indexed converts IDEA special education funding into a formula block grant, routes it through the Administration for Children and Families, or moves the Education Department's disability discrimination enforcement to the Justice Department. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.