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Schenk, Susan J.; Welch, Frances C. – 1980
The controversy over minimum competency assessment has special implications for the handicapped, since federal law requires that handicapped students must be afforded equal educational opportunities. Problems will arise in establishing criteria of competence and in administering minimum competency programs for students with learning disabilities.…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs, Learning Disabilities
Schenck, Susan J. – 1981
Minimum competency testing programs, which assess the basic skills deemed necessary for assimilation into society, have been mandated in several states. Some competency assessment devices, however, do not take handicapping conditions into account. Furthermore, disageement over what constitutes minimum competency prevails among the various state…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Graduation Requirements, High School Graduates, Individualized Education Programs
Roberts, Lily – 1988
The paper examines problems in the utilization of the Resource Specialist Teacher (RST) mandated by California law to serve handicapped students. The study evaluated whether the RST certificate mandate effectively altered the implementation of the least restrictive environment policy for disabled students in a rural area of northeastern…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Consultants, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBlanchard, Marjorie; Nober, E. Harris – 1976
A survey questionnaire was distributed to 211 speech and hearing clinicians to assess the changes in the special education process resulting from Massachusetts Special Education Law--Chapter 766, which calls for mainstream reform in the form of individually planned educational programs which involve parents in the educational planning process.…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Delivery Systems, Educational Trends, Equal Education
Silver, Sandra – 1987
To study aspects of P.L. 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) that prove both most and least problematic for rural special education cooperatives, which is the most prevalent type of cooperative arrangement, a sample was selected that included the 2 Federal Education Regions (from a total of 10) determined to contain the nation's…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Educational Finance
O'Reilly, Robert C. – 1986
This paper reviews federal and state court interpretations of federal and state laws concerning the responsibilities of local school districts in providing free and appropriate education for handicapped children. Particular attention is paid to the building principal's responsibility in carrying out the mandated policies at the operational level,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Court Litigation, Disabilities, Due Process
