Oversight Of Public Law 94 142 The Education For All Handicapped Children Act PDF Download

"We have been asked to repeal Public Law 94-142. We have been asked to cut its funding by 25 percent, then another 8 percent, and, failing, an even 30 percent. We have been promised legislation reealing portions of the act, and we have rejected every single one of these proposals. Now, we are being told that the same people who asked us to decimate the law and to slash funding are selling a regulatory rewrite as an improvement for the disabled. We shall see today whether that is the case or whether the administration is attempting to do by regulation what it has been unable to do in the Congress: to eliminate our Nation's system of special education"--Page1/2.