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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The IEP system has been broken for many years. DOE isn’t doing their job so give it to someone else and hope it gets better.[/quote]

The Dept. of Ed's actual functions are really misunderstood. It's mostly a bank that distributes guidance and federal $ that Congress appropriates for Pell Grants, Title 1, IDEA, and some relatively tiny other grant programs, like for HBCUs.

Implementation/IEPs are at the state and mostly local levels. As a PP said, if you want it to get better, Congress needs to actually fund IDEA and the ADA (which it never has, not even close). That's why the Trump rhetoric re: giving power to the states on this issue is misleading - they already have the authority, just not enough $.

The Dept. of Ed does investigate civil rights violations under IDEA, which DOGE will almost certainly cut. And it seems likely that IDEA and Title 1 funding, which pay for many SPED positions at schools, will be diminished more.

This is bad for kids. 
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The entire IEP process as it stands is bad for kids and teachers and families and schools. IEP law is federal- the DOE should be at a minimum assisting these schools in ways to create better systems to maximize funds within the constraints of those laws. Instead all they do is pass out money and fight legal battles and add requirements and paperwork that’s useless.  It’s just not a sustainable system and you said yourself DOE is just a bank. We don’t need a bank, we need educators that can go in and assist schools and show them ways to consolidate and maximize funding. If federal law is prohibiting that then DOE should be fixing it. It’s been nearly the same IEP system for decades and I can tell you it’s only gotten harder to implement. Find someone  that can make the system better, not just write a check.[/quote]

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