Scott Garrett: “I rise today to offer what is probably one of the simpler amendments that we will see today and, hopefully, for that…”

“I rise today to offer what is probably one of the simpler amendments that we will see today and, hopefully, for that reason, a noncontroversial amendment to H.R. 1350, the Improving Education Results for Children with Disabilities Act of 2003. My amendment will require that the Secretary of Education, within a 2-year period of time from enactment of this Act, to submit back to Congress a study and that study is to take a look at the cost to the States to comply with this Act. I believe this is necessary because any time that the Federal Government decides that it is going to involve itself with the States and ask the States and the local school boards to affect their education locally, it is imperative that the Federal Government looks to the cost side of the equation and looks to how much cost is being imposed on the local school districts and the States respectively.”