PEDAGOGY 2
Fiscal and Administrative requirements of IDEA
The enactment of the Individuals Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) led to the
improvement of educational standards in the United States. Evidently, IDEA made America be
recognized as one of the countries that are committed to ensuring that everyone accesses
education as fundamental human right regardless of his or her physical conditions. However, one
of the challenges is for the state and local administration to develop a plan that addresses the
financial needs of IDEA effectively. With this challenge, sometimes it becomes difficult for the
IDEA program to meet the intended objectives. You will realize that IDEA has thirteen
principles under it. Funke, Irwin, and Rial (2013) argue that with budgeting it becomes wrong
when authorities make a comprehensive budget that addresses various components. What this
means is that in a program there are those individual activities that require their mini-budgets. As
such, when making budgetary plans, it is important for the state and local authorities to consider
that they have every budget for all the principles that fall under the IDEA initiative.
The significance of such an approach is that it addresses every single problem for each
principle of IDEA. In a program of such a magnitude, there are those specific problems that
affect every part of the IDEA program. As such, when budgeting is done based on a
comprehensive approach, then, a problem associated with another part may end up failing the
entire IDEA initiative. As such, the state and local educational officers should have a budget for
each activity in the IDEA program. With such an approach, the government, private and
nonprofit organizations will realize the level of support that is needed for the success of the
IDEA program.
