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Announcement By The Chairman

Floor Speech

Date: July 17, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: K-12 Education


Announcement by the Chairman -- (House of Representatives - July 17, 2007)

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Mr. McCAUL of Texas. Madam Chairman, I rise today to offer an amendment in support of teacher training for deaf and blind children.

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Madam Chair, the Department of Education has provided funding from within its special education national activities account aimed at children who are both deaf and blind, commonly referred to as ``deafblindness.'' This money trains teachers who have such children in their classes on how to educate and include them in daily classroom activities. This modest $12 million program has not received an increase in nearly two decades.

Today over 110,000 people rely on this important program. Expanding this program will allow us to identify more children in need and increase the number of on-site technical assistance personnel.

This amendment simply increases the Special Education National Activities Account to provide the DeafBlindness program with a modest but necessary increase.

I urge my colleagues to support the amendment.

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