Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Disabled people are somehow... there's something to do...

So students with disabilities may be entitled to transportation if it is included as a necessary service under the Disabilities Education Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which is called IDEA.

And whether that's not...

Whether that is federally mandated or state mandated, I'm not exactly sure.

Hinson can demonstrate her support for public schools.

More than 50 years ago, Congress made a commitment to students with disabilities and their families when it enacted what became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA.

The commitment has never been fully funded.

Cedar Rapids knows what that means.

For clear notice, the sources point us to Arlington Central School District v. Murphy.

In that case, Congress provided funding to states under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The statute explicitly said that prevailing parents in lawsuits could recover reasonable attorney's fees as part of the costs.

The question was: Did that language clearly notify states that they would also have to pay for expensive expert witnesses?

Fifty years ago, it was estimated that over half of the country's disabled children received an insufficient education.

To remedy this, in 1975 Congress passed what eventually became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, I-D-E-A, one of several laws that together guaranteed disabled children a free, appropriate public education.

Each eligible child receives an Individualized Education Program, called an IEP, specifying the services a school district must provide.

These range from occasional speech therapy to a classroom aid or placement in a specialized school, which can cost districts hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.

Congress initially envisaged that the federal government would shoulder much of the cost.

IDEA authorized but did not require Washington to fund up to 40% of average national per pupil spending on each disabled child.

In reality, between 2005 and 2021, federal funding for IDEA fell by 12% in real terms.

amounting to an average of just 15.5% of total funding.

Here's the theme.

As the Trump administration is kind of simultaneously saying that IDEA and disability civil rights protections are remaining intact.

So nothing's happening.

Everything's the same.

But then, oddly, proposing putting more money into IDEA supports taking some aggressive disability enforcement actions, and then also fundamentally restructuring the federal education system and adopting a much narrower view of this mandate around integration, right? So like that's our topic for what's happening.

Now, if we dive into the first topic, we're talking about Texas versus Kennedy.

You might say, I don't know what that is.

The community went back to bacon chocolate chip cookies at home instead of calling Congress.