To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide that certain funds treated as local funds under that Act shall be used to provide additional funding for programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

This bill would change how local school districts handle federal funding for special education. Under current law, if the federal government increases its contribution to special education, local districts are sometimes allowed to reduce their own local spending on those programs by a matching amount.

If passed, this legislation would require school districts that choose to reduce their local special education spending in this manner to reinvest those "saved" local funds back into other general education programs, such as those supporting low-income students or teacher training. For citizens, this means that a boost in federal special education funding would be used to supplement the overall school budget rather than simply replacing existing local tax dollars.