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Karen Rooney, CAN Coordinator for the Division for Learning Disabilities, provides brief reports for TeachingLD.org so that visitors can keep informed about important developments in policies affecting students with learning disabilities and their teachers. TeachingLD.org is pleased to offer this page as a place for people concerned with learning disabilities to keep up to date.

24 May 2004

IDEA Reauthorization Progress
The Senate voted to requthorize IDEA in May. Both the House and Senate bills reauthorizing IDEA (S1248 and HR 1350, respectively) are now in conference committee. Representatives of the House and Senate on the committee will negotiate a final bill. The version that comes out of conference will go before both houses for a full vote. If passed, the final version will go to the President to be signed into law.

Amendments
The Senate bill included the following amendments:

• National Children's Study authorizes several federal agencies to obtain data about the health and development of children from birth to 21 and will be the most comprehensive study to date.
• School systems will be allowed to collect attorney's fees under certain conditions such as a frivolous suit and does not put a cap on attorney's fees.
• Homeless children, foster children and children in military families who have disabilities will have greater access to highly quality education.
• There is to be a reduction in the amount of paperwork required.

The amendment for mandatory full funding passed.

For a more extensive analysis, please visit CEC's update.

What Next?
Once the final IDEA reauthorization bill becomes law, the Department of Education must develop regulations for the law. DLD has participated with other learning disabilities organizations in meetings referred to as the "LD Roundtable." The primarily goal of this activity is to prepare regulatory language supportive of students with learning disabilities and their teachers. (Read about this process in the 31 March update). The group of organizations participating in the Roundtable discussions has submitted comments to the Department of Education for consideration.

Karen Rooney
CAN Coordinator, DLD