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The Basic Competencies Movement: Implications for Mainstreaming.
Hull, Marc E.; And Others – Education Unlimited, 1979
The author considers the implications of minimum competency requirements for handicapped students, teachers of the handicapped, and mainstreaming. (SBH)
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Legal Problems, Mainstreaming, Minimum Competency Testing
Primer for Charter School Authorizers: Special Education Requirements and Including Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools. Revised
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Rhim, Lauren Morando; Ahearn, Eileen M.; Giovannetti, Elizabeth A.; Lange, Cheryl M.; Warren, Sandra Hopfengardner – National Association of State Directors of Special Education, 2008
The purpose of this document is to provide charter school authorizers with targeted technical assistance related to special education in charter schools. Charter school laws are unique to each state, and they provide a wide range of policies and practices for the hundred of authorizers chartering schools nationally. As a result, providing…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Stakeholders, Special Education, Technical Assistance
Thinking of Inclusion for all Special Needs Students? Better Think Again.
Smelter, Richard W.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Mandating inclusion for all special-needs students would return education to the 1950s, when student options were extremely limited. Full inclusion, requiring the regular education teacher to learn a monumental number of additional skills, may be state-of-the-art education for the 90s--the 1890s. Restricting all students to the same learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems, Mainstreaming, Misconceptions
Instructional Liability in Physical Education Teacher Education.
Drowatzky, John N. – 1980
A summary is presented of some of the ways that judicial decisions and laws have an impact on higher education and on public education. The sources of legal obligation that impose duties and responsibilities on teachers are discussed. These are: common law, contractual obligations, state laws, and federal laws. The legal definitions are given of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Contracts, Court Litigation, Educational Malpractice
Primer for Charter School Operators: Special Education Requirements and Including Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools
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Warren, Sandra Hopfengardner; Ahearn, Eileen M.; Giovannetti, Elizabeth A.; Lange, Cheryl M.; Rhim, Lauren Morando – National Association of State Directors of Special Education, 2004
The purpose of this document is to provide operators with implementation and operational technical assistance related to special education in charter schools. Special education is a very complicated component of public education and providing operators with technical assistance regarding special education is particularly challenging. This primer…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Technical Assistance