Author: Julie M. Lane, Ed.D.
When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was passed in 1975 as the Education for all Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142), the federal government promised to fund 40% of special education funding. The federal government has never fulfilled this promise. Currently the federal government sends 15% of special education funding to each state. Will this promise every be fulfilled and the special education funding burden lifted from the states?