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  2. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Wikipedia

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    Drawing on the report of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education, [49] the law revised the requirements for evaluating children with learning disabilities. More concrete provisions relating to discipline of special education students were also added. (Pub. L. No. 108-446, 118 Stat. 2647).

  3. Special education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A recent case study of a large urban school district and its special education policies revealed: (a) district-level inclusion policies that were broad and provided little guidance to schools; (b) inadequate funding and training that could enable greater inclusion; (c) the maintenance of fully segregated special education schools and special ...

  4. Individualized Education Program - Wikipedia

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    The IEP team includes the student, the student's parent(s) or legal guardian(s), a special education teacher, at least one general-education teacher, a representative of the school or of the school district who is knowledgeable about the availability of school resources, and an individual who can interpret the instructional implications of the ...

  5. Education for All Handicapped Children Act - Wikipedia

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    The school district in Cumberland, Rhode Island originally agreed to subsidize Tommy's education by placing him in a program for special needs children at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital. The school district later decided to remove Tommy from that program and send him to the Rhode Island Division of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals ...

  6. Special education - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Ministry of Education constituted a committee to develop exclusively the first broad -based National Policy on Special Needs Education (SNE) in Nigeria. The constitution of the drafting committee with the mandate to formulate a national policy on special-needs education [80] gave birth to the National Situation Analysis Report. This ...

  7. Least restrictive environment - Wikipedia

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    Because the law does not clearly state to what degree the least restrictive environment is, courts have had to interpret the LRE principle. In a landmark case interpreting IDEA's predecessor statute (EHA), Daniel R.R. v. State Board of Education (1989), it was determined that students with disabilities have a right to be included in both academic and extracurricular programs of general education.

  8. Free Appropriate Public Education - Wikipedia

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    FAPE is a civil right rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which includes the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses.. FAPE is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (7 CFR 15b.22) [6] as "the provision of regular or special education and related aids and services that (i) are designed to meet individual needs of handicapped persons as adequately as the ...

  9. List of United States education acts - Wikipedia

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    Created the National Council on Education Standards and Testing through the National Council on Education Standards and Testing Act. Pub. L. 102–62: 1991 National Literacy Act of 1991: Pub. L. 102–73: 1991 (No short title) Recognized adult education as a priority of the federal government. Pub. L. 102–74: 1991 National Dropout Prevention ...