I kept going back to that single statement, which lead me to make up my mind in the voting the booth that I would indeed support Barack Obama. This comes up in the Special Ed Advisory Committee meetings all the time - the fact that IDEA is an unfunded mandate, meaning we get very little from it. Having IDEA fully funded would make a huge difference to kids with autism all over the country, instead having it passed through to the local school districts as an unfunded mandate. I am all for research and better treatments, but fully funding IDEA now is a fantastic goal and one I believe he could and would achieve with the help of Congress.
Having said that, I hope Senator John McCain eventually makes an equally strong policy statement on autism as part of his platform. This is not a one party issue - at least it shouldn't be.
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