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Elizabeth Talbott's avatar

Thanks so much for the Deep Dive, John! I also think that IES is scheduled to receive at least flat funding in this bill. Did you find anything about IES in the language? Encouraging news #4specialeducation

John Wills Lloyd's avatar

Thanks for the note, Betsy.

Yes, there was a section headed "IES." I'd have to go back to find it again (there're dozens, if not scores of pages!), so this is from memory. There was a specific allocation for something about cell-phones and a batch of language similar to the long quote at the end of my post (paraphrase: "We see what happened last year with funds and functions being moved out...don't do that with this law").

Elizabeth Talbott's avatar

Awesome! Love seeing the bipartisan support for special education and education research. Smart to see Congress building guardrails around their funding allocations. Let's all keep cheering for these sensible appropriations to pass by next Friday 1/30.