GOP Upset Over Possibility of Minimal Spec. Ed. Raise
Congressional Republicans and educators are dismayed over reports that the Department of Education plans to seek a minuscule increase for special education state grants for the next fiscal year.
The department plans to ask only for an additional $3 million--an increase of just a tenth of a percent--for the $3.8 billion program, which sends money to states and local districts to help them pay for special education costs, according to documents obtained by Education Week last week from the House.
The program received a $700 million increase for the current fiscal year, up 23 percent from $3.1 billion in fiscal 1997. An omnibus education bill pushed by Senate Republicans asks for an additional $9.3 billion for the Individuals...
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