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How Special Education Students Are Among the Biggest Victims of Federal Spending Drops

Across the country, advocates for children with disabilities are grappling with the impact of federal budget cuts to special education programs. Let’s explore the impact and how many young people’s lives are affected.

Widespread Effects

2013’s massive budget cuts (the sequestration) included a 5 percent reduction in federal funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which has had major negative effects on children across the country.

Not only are children and their families affected, so are educators who are under the risk of pay cuts or job losses.

300,000

Special education students whose programs will be or have been affected by federal budget cuts

7,800

Jobs that could be lost as a result of the cuts

State-by-state effects

Reduction in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B Grants for fiscal year 2013:

US $578,892,762

AL 8,915,770

AK 1,919,022

AZ 10,040,553

AR 5,633,069

CA 62,855,318

CO 8,108,108

CT 6,314,489

DE 1,839,638

FL 31,092,117

GA 17,458,448

HI 2,035,593

ID 2,865,332

IL 24,657,563

IN 12,376,969

IA 5,770,827

KS 5,251,785

KY 7,688,909

LA 9,752,289

ME 2,586,535

MD 9,719,363

MA 13,418,282

MI 20,279,289

MN 9,199,308

MS 6,123,987

MO 10,762,593

MT 1,919,022

NE 3,529,607

NV 3,775,945

NH 2,247,666

NJ 17,085,902

NM 4,354,823

NY 36,378,359

NC 16,776,161

ND 1,493,764

OH 22,008,413

OK 7,300,677

OR 6,372,225

PA 21,381,079

RI 2,067,098

SC 8,583,510

SD 1,779,462

TN 11,706,600

TX 51,026,919

UT 5,672,990

VT 1,440,274

VA 13,878,260

WA 11,251,352

WV 3,589,871

WI 10,097,151

WY 1,510,990

DC 924,976

What Is Happening?

The across-the-board cuts to federal education spending have resulted in:

Services cut or eliminated for millions of students.

Funding for children living in poverty, special education, and Head Start slashed by billions.

Ballooning class sizes.

Elimination of after-school programs.

Decimation of programs for our most vulnerable—homeless students, English language learners and high-poverty, struggling schools.

Slashing of financial aid for college students.

Loss of tens of thousands of education jobs—at early childhood, elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels.

Not Living Up to Promises

Under the IDEA, the government committed to helping make up the difference in the cost of educating a disabled student and a general student. But it’s never even come close to coming through on that commitment.

40%

Percentage of difference promised

18.5%

Highest percentage of difference given

14.9%

Percentage given under sequestration

Why Does it Matter?

For millions of students with special needs, these programs have proved crucial to their development and success later in life.

1 in 3

Students with learning disabilities who don’t finish high school

3 in 5

Students with emotional disabilities who don’t finish high school

Arrest rates for youth with disabilities who drop out of school

Emotional/behavioral disabilities 73%

Learning disabilities 62%

$51,000

Amount taxpayers spend per year to incarcerate one person

$11,500

Amount needed to educate one child with a disability

SOURCES:

http://www.pewstates.org

http://www.nea.org

http://www.ncset.org