GOP Puts Priority on Raising IDEA Funding
The House may have been in the midst of debating a voucher bill late last month, but Rep. Bill Goodling clearly had special education money on his mind when he strode to the chamber's lectern.
The influential Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee wanted to get his message across to Democrats: Drastically increase the funding to states for the nation's main special education program, the 23-year-old Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or else.
"I get fed up when I hear the other side keep talking about pupil-teacher ratio, keep talking about building buildings, repairing buildings," the usually low-key former school principal shouted at the few Democrats who were standing across the aisle from him. "Put your money...
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