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Friday, July 26, 2024

Project 2025

 In The Politics of Autism, I write about social servicesspecial education and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Project 2025 of the Heritage Foundation has a long volume titled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.  Page 326:

 The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) houses nearly two dozen programs, ranging from funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf to Special Olympics Funding and the American Printing House for the Blind. Most IDEA funding should be converted into a no-strings formula block grant targeted at students with disabilities and distributed directly to local education agencies by Health and Human Service’s Administration for Community Living.

IDEA is not a civil rights statute.   Its requirements are conditions of federal aid -- also known as "strings."  "No strings" means "no requirements