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Ensuring Equitable Opportunities: Providing a High-Quality Education for Students with Disabilities

The primary mechanism for ensuring students with disabilities receive the right educational content and rigor at the right moment in their education is the individualized education program. This new CCSSO resource, Ensuring an Equitable Opportunity: Providing a High-Quality Education for Students with Disabilities, details policy and practice considerations around individualized education programs chiefs and state education leaders can reflect upon and implement in ensuring all students, especially students with disabilities, have access to a high-quality education. 

 

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Perry Zirkel’s December Legal Alert

This month’s update concerns issues that were subject to recent, unpublished federal court decisions of general significance: (a) the continuing issue of the need prong for eligibility under the IDEA, and (b) the occasional issue of “reverse attorneys’ fees,” i.e., where the district rather than the parent is the party seeking payment. For both of these two issues, see publications at perryzirkel.com.

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CEC Legislative Call to Action

As lawmakers begin to put pen to paper, it is important to keep education funding top of mind through advocacy from education funding stakeholders. To that end, CEC has developed a Call to Action through the Legislative Action Center for members to engage in a final push on FY 2020 spending. The template letter calls for spending increases to the following programs:

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Grants to States Program (Part B)
  • IDEA Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities Program (Part C)
  • IDEA Preschool Program (Part B Section 619)
  • IDEA National Activities (Part D)
  • National Center for Special Education Research, within the Institute for Education Sciences
  • Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act

It is critical that CEC and other education funding stakeholders keep the drum beat going. To join in this call to action, please follow this link.

For more information on how you can advocate for students needing special education and other services, visit CEC’s Legislative Action Center and sign up for their Action Alert emails.  Together, we can make a difference!

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