[Dec-advocacy] news update

[Sarah Hadden]

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11/3/05

Good afternoon. I have updates related to appropriations and the  IDEA 
regulations.

On October 27th, the Senate passed its Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education Appropriations bill. The bill funds IDEA @ 18%. 
The 18% funding level is a reduction from last year's level of 18.6%. 
You may recall that last year, Congress made a commitment to fully fund 
IDEA @ 40%  by 2011. Prior to the October 27th vote, Senators Clinton 
and Dodd  proposed an amendment to increase funding for IDEA, but the 
amendment  failed.  The House passed its version of this bill in June. 
The bill now needs to go to conference so the differences can be ironed 
out. On a related note, the Senate bill did increase funding for Title 
I by $100 million and funding for Head Start by $31.2 million.

OSEP announced last week that the final publication of Part B 
regulations has been delayed, possibly until February. Draft regs for 
Part C will follow.

Sarah Hadden
DEC Governmental Relations Committee


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