Essential Concepts and School-Based Cases in Special Education Law [Paperback]

Covers IDEA and its accompanying regulations and analyzes cases involving procedural due process, assistive technology, disciplinary sanctions, dispute resolution, antidiscrimination laws, and special services entitlement.Covers IDEA and its accompanying regulations and analyzes cases involving procedural due process, assistive technology, disciplinary sanctions, dispute resolution, antidiscrimination laws, and special services entitlement. A must-read, must-purchase, must-save reference. This text provides relevant cases that can be used as part of professional development for teachers and the leadership team, presents a clear explanation of laws?for graduate courses, and offers an educational chronology for educators. This is a reference book I would want on my bookshelf when considering action in a special education situation. Im very impressed with this book as a potential resource for principals, directors of special education, superintendents, members of boards of directors, professors, and aspiring educators. It would be extremely useful for checking the original language of a controlling case on a wide variety of topics. Gathers concepts from leading special education cases and provides excerpts from selected legal decisions to help educators understand special challenges in special education law. The result is an important desk reference needed by any school teaching special education. Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction: The Law of Special Education
Sources of Law
The Development of Special Education Laws
Legislative Initiatives
Case No. 1: Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Case No. 2: Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
References
2. Entitlement to Special ElS€