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Convert special education funding into a block grant run by Health and Human Services

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 11, p. 326. Written by Lindsey M. Burke.

Convert special education funding into a block grant run by Health and Human Services

The document says “shouldWho acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 326 in the PDF
What the document says

“Most IDEA funding should be converted into a no-strings formula block grant targeted at students with disabilities”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 326

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”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 326
That sentence, in plain words

Most of this money should go out as a block grant. It should carry no strings.

What this is about

Federal money helps schools teach children with disabilities. The book says it should go straight to school districts. Another department would send it.

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