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    This document is a Senate Concurrent Resolution from the South Dakota Legislature urging Congress to increase federal funding for special education. It summarizes that Congress promised to fund 40% of the average per pupil expenditure for special education when passing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1975 but has never met that level of funding, which currently stands at only 18%. It resolves to urge Congress to honor its original promise and work toward fully funding the 40% level to help relieve the financial burden on states and school districts.

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    This document is a Senate Concurrent Resolution from the South Dakota Legislature urging Congress to increase federal funding for special education. It summarizes that Congress promised to fund 40% of the average per pupil expenditure for special education when passing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1975 but has never met that level of funding, which currently stands at only 18%. It resolves to urge Congress to honor its original promise and work toward fully funding the 40% level to help relieve the financial burden on states and school districts.

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    This document is a Senate Concurrent Resolution from the South Dakota Legislature urging Congress to increase federal funding for special education. It summarizes that Congress promised to fund 40% of the average per pupil expenditure for special education when passing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1975 but has never met that level of funding, which currently stands at only 18%. It resolves to urge Congress to honor its original promise and work toward fully funding the 40% level to help relieve the financial burden on states and school districts.

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    State of South Dakota

    NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
    LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2019

    956B0065
    SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1
    Introduced by: Senators Nesiba, Bolin, Maher, Monroe, and Youngberg and Representatives
    Schoenfish, Bartels, Duvall, and Smith (Jamie) at the request of the
    Extraordinary Cost Fund for Special Education Study Committee

    1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Urging Congress to increase federal funding for special

    2 education.

    3 WHEREAS, Congress, in 1975, passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    4 (IDEA) mandating that all children with disabilities be provided a free appropriate public

    5 education in the least restrictive environment; and

    6 WHEREAS, at the same time, Congress promised the states that the federal government

    7 would provide forty percent of the average per pupil expenditure to help offset the cost of

    8 educating eligible students; and

    9 WHEREAS, in the nearly forty-four years since the law was passed and the promise was

    10 made, Congress has never in any of those years provided the level of funding promised; in fact,

    11 the past several decades have seen few significant increases and, more important, a decline in

    12 funding as a percentage of the average per pupil expenditure, which peaked at eighteen percent

    13 in 2004; and

    14 WHEREAS, this persistent underfunding has contributed to poor outcomes for some

    100 copies were printed on recycled paper by the South Dakota Insertions into existing statutes are indicated by underscores.
    Legislative Research Council at a cost of $.167 per page. v Deletions from existing statutes are indicated by overstrikes.
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    1 students and has left states and school districts burdened to find the fiscal resources needed to

    2 meet their obligations under IDEA, especially at times like these when the relative costs of

    3 serving children in special education are escalating; and

    4 WHEREAS, coalitions comprised of education organizations and concerned parents have

    5 worked tirelessly for years to secure increased appropriations for IDEA; their efforts have been

    6 supported by the introduction of IDEA full funding bills in almost every session of Congress,

    7 and support for increased funding has been largely bipartisan, but despite all of that, significant

    8 increases in funding remain elusive:

    9 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Senate of the Ninety-Fourth Legislature

    10 of the State of South Dakota, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that the United

    11 States Congress be urged to begin to honor the promise made in 1975 by working toward

    12 funding forty percent of the average per pupil expenditure for students eligible for special

    13 education; and

    14 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this

    15 resolution to the speaker and clerk of the United States House of Representatives, to the

    16 president pro tempore and secretary of the United States Senate, and to the members of the

    17 South Dakota Congressional delegation.

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