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Most ESEA funding is directed to elementary schools.
There has been concern that the Bush plan does not include costs of test development. Once the ESEA bill is finalized in Committee it will move to the full Senate where a contentious debate over private school vouchers is anticipated. The House Education and the Workforce Committee is expected to finalize their ESEA legislation later this year. Time for a New Approach detailing the need for federal IDEA funding. Many schools depend on these sales to support their general operating budgets, and to pay for equipment, instructional materials, co-curricular programs and other programs and services that might not otherwise be available.