House+Bill+526

House Bill 526 Title: Full Funding For IDEA Now Act** Sponsor of Bill: Sam Graves (R) 6th district of Missouri Disabled children ages 3-21 The IDEA act Special education systems
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 * Who the bill affects:**

The purpose of this bill is help the federal government's goal of providing 40% of the state's current average disabled child's cost to pay for him/her to receive special education. This will be done by increasing the special education funding by $125 million to help support the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
 * Summary/Purpose:**

In 1975, Congress that millions of American children with disabilities were still not receiving an appropriate education. They found that more than half of the handicapped children in the United States have not received appropriate educational services which would enable them to have full equality of opportunity. For example, in 1970, U.S. schools only educated one in five children with disabilities. The IDEA act is a federal law created in 1975. It is designed to protect the rights of students with disabilities by ensuring that everyone receives a free appropriate public education (FAPE), regardless of ability. The IDEA strives to give students with disabilities an equal access to education and to provide additional special education services and procedural safeguards. By helping to pay for IDEA's funding, we will be helping parents to be able to pay for their disabled child to attend the special education schools, and to help their child learn and to try to live a more normal life. It is far more expensive for states to pay for special education, such as the designs for the building or for paying the teachers. This bill is neccessary in helping out the disabled children of America.
 * History:**

This bill is important because it is neccessary in filling out the federal government's goal of provinding 40% of the state's current average disabled child's cost to pay for him/her to receive the appropriate special education. This goal will support the IDEA act by increasing the special education funding by $125 million. By doing this, we will help to educate the unfortunate children with disabilities to become smarter and to have a life that is closer to a normal life.
 * Why this bill is important:**

Sam Graves (R) 6th district of Missouri A special education school

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 * Bibliography:**

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/g000546/

http://www.help4adhd.org/en/education/rights/idea