(1) On November 29, 2025, the Individuals 
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) will honor 
its 50th anniversary since President Gerald Ford 
signed the Education for All Handicapped Children 
Act into law in 1975. 
(2) IDEA stated, clearly and unequivocally, 
that every child, regardless of disability, has the 
right to a free appropriate public education in the 
least restrictive setting possible. 
(3) 50 years of progress, 50 years of possibili-
ties, IDEA opened classroom doors, expanded oppor-
tunities, and transformed education for millions of 
students with disabilities, let us keep moving for-
ward, not backward. 
(4) Before 1975, more than 1,000,000 children 
with disabilities were excluded from public schools, 
often relegated to specialized private schools spon-
sored by charities and psychiatric hospitals, or left 
without an education altogether. 
(5) IDEA changed that, paving the way for in-
dividualized education plans that addressed the indi-
vidual needs of students classified under IDEA. 
(6) Today, IDEA governs the education of 
nearly 8,000,000 students nationwide, or approxi-
mately 15 percent of all public school students. 
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(7) According to the law, public schools must 
identify and assess all students to ascertain if they 
require services under IDEA. 
(8) Children who are experiencing homelessness 
or attending private schools must also be afforded 
these services if required. 
(9) For 50 years, IDEA has been the corner-
stone of special education in the United States, en-
suring access, accountability, and equality for mil-
lions of students. 
(10) The history of IDEA is one of progress 
hard-won and progress worth protecting. 
(11) When IDEA became law, only 1 in 5 chil-
dren with disabilities had access to public education, 
and today, millions learn, grow, and thrive because 
of its protections. 
(12) 50 years later, that impact can’t be forgot-
ten, or undone. 
SEC. 3. TRANSFERRING UNOBLIGATED AMOUNTS TO THE 
IDEA. 
(a) RESCISSION.—The unobligated balance of each 
amount made available under the heading ‘‘Department 
of Education’’ by any Act providing appropriations for fis-
cal year 2026, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, 
are permanently rescinded. 
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(b) TRANSFER.—To the extent that amounts other-
wise made available to carry out section 611 of the Indi-
viduals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411) 
for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029 are equivalent, 
accounting for inflation, to the amounts made available 
to carry out such section 611 in fiscal year 2025, there 
is hereby appropriated, out of any amounts in the Treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated, to be allocated to States 
for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029 in accordance 
with such section 611, an amount equal to the amounts 
rescinded by subsection (a), to be merged with amounts 
otherwise made available for such purposes. Amounts allo-
cated to States pursuant to this subsection for each of fis-
cal years 2026 through 2029 shall supplement, not sup-
plant, amounts otherwise made available to make alloca-
tions to States under section 611 of the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411) for each such 
fiscal year. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after amounts 
are rescinded by subsection (a), the Secretary of Edu-
cation shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
identifying— 
(1) the amounts rescinded by subsection (a); 
and 
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(2) the amounts allocated to each State pursu-
ant to subsection (b). 
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