11. Department of Education · Notable
Rescind the Equity in IDEA regulation
Printed page 336 11. Department of Education
“The next Administration should immediately commence rulemaking to rescind the Equity in IDEA regulation. No replacement regulation is required.”
What has happened
- Attempted
The 2026 Unified Agenda carries RIN 1820-AB84, "Equity in IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)", a first-time entry from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at Proposed Rule Stage, flagged Deregulatory under Executive Order 14192, with an NPRM timetabled for August 2026. The abstract says the Department "intends to amend" the 2016 regulations that set the standard methodology states must use to determine significant disproportionality by race and ethnicity - not to rescind them, and sixteen months after the "immediately" the Quote asks for. No proposed rule had been published by the Corpus fetch date.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search: Federal Register full text for “Equity in IDEA” since 2025-01-20 returns one document, the Unified Agenda itself; “significant disproportionality” returns three, two of them routine paperwork notices for the Annual State Application under IDEA Part B (2025-08-22, 2026-01-09), which shows the regulation still operating.
- reginfo.gov, not the Federal Register, is where this entry is legible: it is not printed in ED’s own Reg-Flex notice, and the Regulatory Plan lists it by title only.
- Whether a Unified Agenda entry counts as attempted or still not started is an open question, and the other reading would change the Status.
- Action
- rescind
- Object
- Equity in IDEA regulation (IDEA Part B significant disproportionality rule)
- ID
- 848