This report contains the proceedings of a hearing on the overidentification of students with disabilities that was conducted on October 4, 2001, before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce. The report includes opening statements by Chairman John Boehner and Representative George Miller and the statements of: (1) Secretary of Education Roderick R. Paige; (2) Representative Chaka Fattah from Pennsylvania; (3) Thomas Hehir, lecturer on education at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University; and (4) Matthew Ladner, Policy Director of Children First America. Concerns raised at the hearing include the overidentification of minority students for special education services, particularly African American boys, the link between poverty and disability, and the need for increased funding in special education. Extensive appendices include written statements of the participants, a letter submitted for the record by Gary Orfield, Daniel Losen, and Christopher Edley, Jr., from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, responses submitted for the record by Secretary Paige to questions asked by congressmen, a statement submitted for the record by Representative Hilda Solis, and a statement submitted for the record by Representative Harold Ford, Jr. (CR)