The Project 2025 blueprint calls for the lion’s share of programs, including Title I and IDEA, to be moved to HHS – which already administers Head Start. Most vocational education programs would be moved to the Labor Department. The Office for Civil Rights would be moved to the Justice Department. And the Pell Grant program and the student loan program would be moved to the Treasury Department.
Title I - emphasis mine
Title I, Part A (Title I) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA) provides supplemental financial assistance to school districts for children from low-income families. Its purpose is to provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high-quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps by allocating federal funds for education programs and services. Title I allocations to state education agencies and local education agencies (LEAs) are based primarily on annually updated LEA poverty estimates produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. Then, within-LEA allocations to schools are based on school poverty rates, for which a common measure used by LEAs is the number of public school children eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL)
I spent 18 years working for a school district where 20/31 schools qualify. The new plan is to send this money, along with funds for IDEA -
https://www.naesp.org/blog/funding-falls-short-for-students-with-disabilities/
On Dec. 2, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the country’s first federal special education law—the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
In Wisconsin, private and parochial schools can discriminate against students with disabilities by refusing to admit them. They also eliminate them from mandatory testing to it doesn’t bring the school’s performance down.
In addition, the public school district is required to provide teachers and specialists to go into those private schools and work with the students, paid for with the public funds.
This would be block grant with no restrictions as to application.
