Bob Schaffer: “It just defies logic, but again it points out my point that these folks have had 8 years to try to help, to try to help…”

“It just defies logic, but again it points out my point that these folks have had 8 years to try to help, to try to help local schools. They have really blown the opportunity. Even when they have Republicans, and we are conservatives and we like to spend less when we can, but here is a program where we believe we ought to pay for what the government promised, and we have no assistance from the White House. Al Gore, Bill Clinton, had other things they wanted to spend money on, not children with disabilities in education. It is important not only for those children, but it is important because even when Congress does not fund the program to the extent that it promised, the responsibility for carrying out the program still exists. Every principal of every school in this country has to continue to unfold and provide these services under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, just as the law says, and it does not matter whether we provide the money. That is the real hardship, because what a principal has to do is steal funds from other places in his or her budget.”