Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. The resolution (S. Res. 702) was agreed to. The preamble was agreed to. The resolution, with its preamble, read as follows: S. Res. 702 Whereas, in 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that children with disabilities have the same right to receive a quality education in the public schools as their nondisabled peers and, in 1975, the Congress passed Public Law 94-142 guaranteeing students with disabilities the right to a free appropriate public education; Whereas, according to the Department of Education, approximately 6,600,000 children (roughly 13 percent of all school-aged children) receive special education services; Whereas there are over 370,000 highly qualified special education teachers in the United States; Whereas the work of special education teachers requires special education teachers to be able to interact and teach students with specific learning disabilities, hearing impairments, speech or language impairments, orthopedic impairments, visual impairments, autism, combined deafness and blindness, traumatic brain injury, and other health impairments; Whereas special education teachers-- (1) are dedicated; (2) possess the ability to understand the needs of a diverse group of students; (3) have the capacity to use innovative teaching methods tailored to a unique group of students; and (4) understand the differences of the children in the…”