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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\nFiscal years. $ in millions.\n1978\n1979\n1980\n1981\n1982\nBasic grants\n387\n794\n1,500\n2,300\n3,100\nPre-school incentive\ngrants\n168\n177\n192\n206\n218\nEvaluation and\nstatistics\n27 40 40 N/A N/A\nArchitectual barrier\nremoval grant\nN/A N/A N/A N/A N/A\nArguments for Approval\n1. Disapproval will be interpreted by many to reflect a\nlack of concern for the educational needs of the handi-\ncapped and the reasons for your disapproval are not likely\nto be well understood by the public.\n2.\nThe States cannot shoulder the burden of all the extra\ncosts involved in the education of the handicapped.\n3. Of the approximately 8 million handicapped children (from\nbirth to age 19) in the United States, only 3.9 million\nare currently receiving an appropriate education.\n4. While the enrolled bill entails potentially high budget\ncosts in later years, the conferees scaled down drastically\nthe authorizations for the earlier years and have provided\nfor a gradual increase in the Federal Government's partici-\npation.\nArguments for Disapproval\n1.\nFederal funding of education activities for handicapped\nchildren should be mainly aimed at assisting States in\nbuilding capacity. S. 6 would drastically alter traditional\nFederal-State roles by having the Federal Government pay\na substantial portion of the \"extra costs.'\n2. The grant formula for \"entitlements\" in the enrolled bill\nis based on the erroneous assumption that only the States,\nand not the Federal Government, have limited financial\nFORD\nresources. Full funding of the formula would require\nappropriations which cannot realistically be expected."
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