By transferring funds from ineffective and low-priority labor, health and education programs, Congress could increase funding for special education by billions of dollars and thereby go a long way toward "full" federal funding of the program-which was defined as 40 percent of average per-pupil spending in the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. A brief policy memo from the Heritage Foundation spells out which unproductive programs Congress should ax in order to beef up special ed, and what the resultant "savings" would be. "Making Good on Promises to Increase Funding for Special Education," by Krista Kafer, The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, September 10, 2002.
