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Special Education Studies and Evaluations

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

84.329

Program objective

To assess progress in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, including State and local efforts to provide (1) Free appropriate public education to children with disabilities; and (2) early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities who would be at risk of having substantial developmental delays if early intervention services were not provided.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    Evaluation reports produced with program funding are available at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/evaluation/disabilities.asp. Evaluation reports produced with program funding are available at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/evaluation/disabilities.asp.

  2. 2017

    Evaluation reports produced with program funding are available at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/evaluation/disabilities.asp.

  3. 2018

    Evaluation reports produced with program funding are available at https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/evaluation/evaluations_filter.asp.

  4. 2019

    Evaluation reports produced with program funding are available at https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/evaluation/evaluations_filter.asp.

  5. 2020

    No data available.

  6. 2024

    Funding for FY 2024 supports an Impact Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities, a Descriptive Study of Special and General Educator Collaboration, and a Study of Special Education Spending.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Information on the program is available on the agency website at https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/ and in Congressional budget justifications at https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget24/justifications/y-ies.pdf.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Child (6-15)
  • Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled)
  • Education (0-8)
  • Education (9-12)
  • Individual/Family
  • Infant (0-5)
  • Local
  • Mentally Disabled
  • School
  • State
  • Youth (16-21)

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