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CED-79-121 1 (1979-09-04)

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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
         WASHINGTON 1 C 20548


B-114868


SEPTEMBER 4, 1979


The Honorable Robert C. Byrd
Chairman, Subcommittee on the
  Department of Interior and
  Related Agencies
Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate


Dear Mr. Chairman:


Sub3ect:


The Bureau of Indian Affairs
is Slow in Providing Special Education
Services to All Handicapped Indian
Children (CED-79-121)


     Your February 16, 1979, letter requested that we
conduct a review to determine the progress the Bureau of
Indian Affairs has made in its elementary and secondary
schools to

     --achieve the Education for All Handicapped Children
       Act of 1975 mandate of providing a free and ap-
       propriate public education to all handicapped
       children between the ages of 3 and 18 not later
       than September 1, 1978, and

     --hire 202 special education teachers and specialists
       provided for by the Congress in! appropriating an
       additional $5 million in fiscal year 1979.

     Our review at the Navajo and Phoenix area offices
showed that the Bureau made some progress toward achieving
this mandate, but had not complied with the act's require-
ment to serve all handicapped children. We visited 19
schools with a tolal of 883 handicapped children. At these
schools, teachers identified 340 students, or 38 percent,
receiving full special education services, 113 students,
or 13 percent, receiving partial services, and 430 students,
or 49 percent, receiving no services.

     The lack of progress resulted because the Bureau
did not

     --implement and administer an effective program at
        an early date,


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