Education Law
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Current Practices and Issues
Key Principals of IDEA
100

A federal funding law that provides funding to special education programs to teach students with disabilities. Includes 14 categories of disabilities up till the age of 21.

What is IDEA?

100

The three levels of courts 

what is the district court, circuit court, supreme court?

100

These two laws both cover and protect the student from bullying and harassment  

IDEA and 504

100

Those who receive special education in school should be provided the best setting to learn and be given as much time in the general classroom with their other peers as much as appropriate.

What is LRE?

200

Singed in 1990 a civil rights law that focuses on discrimination against individuals with disabilities and also regulates standards needed for buildings and other construction. 

What is ADA?

200

It was the supreme court decision that made segregation in public schools illegal

what is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

IEP team responsibilities.

Review the IEP, determine whether the IEP contains appropriate goals and objectives. Assess appropriate instructional activities and/or supports.

200

Described differently under IDEA and 504 a principle that says schools must provide it to everyone and that if it is not being met guardians can seek it at another school who will provide it and ask for compensation.

What is FAPE?

300

Students under this law do not receive an IEP and cover those who have a physical or mental impairment that may limit one or more major life activities.

What is 504

300

A deaf child whose parents asked the school if she could be provided a sign language interpreter in the classroom under the IDEA. After being denied they went to court.

Who is Amy Rowley?

300

An act that provides funds and services to students who are homeless and give them the right to transportation and registration to school among other things.

what is the McKinney-Vento Act

300

Protects students by sharing the school's actions regarding their child, the chance to consent to changes, and a way to challenge those decisions.

What are Procedural Safeguards?

400

A privacy law that protects student's education records including report cards, disciplinary records, family information, etc. 

What is FERPA?

400

A recent 2017 landmark case decided that schools under FAPE must provide more than de minimis and ensure that the student's IEP is reasonably calculated to keep appropriate progress.

What is Endrew v Douglas?

400

A law named after a young girl who advocated for a change in language and successfully replaced it with intellectual disability.

what is Rosa's Law?

400

Students under IDEA are provided a document in school that sets goals and lists needs/accommodations needed for the student. The parents meet with teachers, administrations, etc. to talk about it and meet once every year to review it.

What is IEP?

500

The year the name was changed to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

When was 1990?

500

A teacher who was let go due to recurrent tuberculosis was fired and went to court under section 504. It was deemed discrimination because although she was a major life activity was limited she was still qualified for her job.

what was School Board of Nassau County v. Arline?

500

Prior Written Notice, consent, access to records, and availability of mediation are distribution requirements of this policy

what are procedural safeguards?

500

A way in which a school or parents can see the effectiveness of a program or take note of a current or new disability.

What are evaluations?