WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today questioned witnesses at Senator Mazie Hirono's (D-HI) spotlight forum entitled "Breaking the Promise: How Relocating the IDEA Will Be Detrimental to Students and Families." During the forum, Durbin sounded the alarm on the Trump Administration's plans to shuffle the Department of Education's (ED) Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), an agency that lacks the experience and expertise to help students with disabilities access a public education.
"They [the Trump Administration] doesn't have sensitivity to issues like racial...