Journal article
EDUCATION LAW AND POLICY: AN IDEA SCHOOLS CAN USE: LESSONS FROM SPECIAL EDUCATION LEGISLATION
Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol.29, pp.759-2413
01 Dec 2001
Abstract
I. Introduction The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (the "IDEA") 1 has been a part of our public education system since 1975. The IDEA was enacted in response to the exclusion and inadequate education of children with disabilities. 2 The IDEA is widely viewed as having opened the doors to education to previously excluded children. 3 The Act also assisted schools in identifying children who have disabilities and providing them with special educational services. 4 Today over six million children receive some kind of special education services; about thirteen percent of a total school population of forty-eight million children in school. 5 Reform of public education is not a new topic for public discussion. Shifts in educational philosophy and calls for change have characterized education since the beginning of the common school. 6 Likewise, special education has been a subject of scrutiny since its inception. 7 During the summer of 2001, as Congress labored to pass new standards for public education, the Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush's administration resisted efforts to increase funding for special education, asserting that the IDEA needed reforms that money could not address. 8 This article argues that the resources already available through the IDEA can, if used inclusively, help provide a better education to every school child. They can bring personnel, training, and support into the classroom that will give each child more individual attention and more chances to learn. The increasing number of children identified as needing ...
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- Title
- EDUCATION LAW AND POLICY: AN IDEA SCHOOLS CAN USE: LESSONS FROM SPECIAL EDUCATION LEGISLATION
- Creators
- Terry Jean Seligmann
- Publication Details
- Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol.29, pp.759-2413
- Publisher
- Fordham University School of Law Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991021862272704721