Reauthorization of the Discretionary Programs under the Education of the Handicapped Act. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session (Bozeman, MT, August 27; Washington, DC, October 22-23; and Honolulu, HI, November 26, 1985).

Overview & Synopsis

The transcript of the 1985 hearings contains testimony and prepared statements on reauthorization of the discretionary programs under P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Part B of the Education of the Handicapped Act). The discretionary programs section of the law authorizes federal assistance to support such programs as regional resource centers, early education programs, secondary education programs, transitional services, and training of special education personnel and parents. Organizations represented by statements include: state departments of education (Florida, Vermont, Colorado, Montana, Hawaii), university training programs, early childhood programs, and the National Rural Development Institute. Additional prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials represent the Florida, Vermont, Colorado and Montana state departments of education as well as other university programs, the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, the American Council on Rural Education, the Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, the Association of School Psychologists, the Education for the Handicapped Law Report, Counterpoint Communications Company, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, and the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate. (DB)