Why doesn't federal government fully fund special ed?

Column: Carol Veravanich, The Orange County Register It really stuck out that the federal government only funds special education 19 percent when they should fund it at least 40 percent. Seems to me that they should fund it 100 percent and then we would be out of the woods, so to speak. Is this an Obama administration cut from funding it down to 19 percent from 40 percent?