Palin on Special Needs Education: Whats Your Take?
Palin on Special Needs Education: What’s Your Take? Saturday October 25, 2008 Today’s Washington Post featured a story on Sarah Palin’s proposed policy for special needs. The speech focused entirely on funding for the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), and Democratic spokespeople immediately raised the point that Republicans have not, historically, supported the Act. Here is a shortened version of the story: In a speech in Pittsburgh, Penn., Palin pledged that a McCain-Palin administration would fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, exempt disability programs from the domestic discretionary spending freeze they plan to institute next year, and will provide school vouchers so families can send their special needs children to the school of their choice…. A Palin aide who asked not to be identified said that the campaign would ask to
