Annual Appropriations and Number of Children Served Under Part C of IDEA
Federal Fiscal Years 1987-2007

¹  Source: http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget07/07action.pdf (PDF: 77kb) , October 5, 2006 (downloaded March 8, 2007)

²  Number and percentage of infants and toddlers receiving early intervention services under Part C, Chapter 1 (for FY 1987 through FY 1994 only), and other programs as of December 1 of the Federal fiscal year. For example, for fiscal year 1991, 194,000 children were reported to be receiving services as of December 1, 1990. The number represents U.S. and outlying areas. The percentage is based only on 50 states, D.C. and P.R. - Sources: https://www.ideadata.org/tables29th%5Car_6-1.htm, updated July 17, 2006, and https://www.ideadata.org/tables29th%5Car_C-2.htm, August 2006 (both downloaded March 8, 2007)

³  A combination of factors appears to account for the apparent decline in these child counts:

• early inaccuracies, including duplicated counts in state data collection systems;
• inclusion in earlier years of children who only received some services and who did not necessarily have IFSPs; and
• in the count for 1993, the decline in the reported number of children served in several large states masked the reports from 39 other jursdictions of increases in the number of children served.

⁴  Includes $34 million to offset the elimination of funding for the Chapter 1 Handicapped Program.

⁵  FY 2005 was level funded from 2004 but there was a .80% recission.

⁶  FY 2006 was level funded from 2005 but there was a 1% recission.