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Litigation and Students with Disabilities: An Overview of Cases From 2015
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Katsiyannis, Antonis; Counts, Jennifer; Popham, Michelle; Ryan, Joseph; Butzer, Madeline – NASSP Bulletin, 2016
Special education is the most highly litigated area within the field of education. Therefore, the purpose of the current article is to highlight cases (court decisions, Office of Civil Rights rulings, and State Educational Agency hearings) involving students with disabilities in 2015. Highlights from the case law point to the need for school…
Descriptors: Special Education, Court Litigation, State Departments of Education, Hearings
Avoiding the Threat: An Exploratory Study Into a Theoretical Understanding of the De Facto Segregation of Students with Disabilities
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Williams, Jacob; Pazey, Barbara; Fall, Anna Mária; Yates, James R.; Roberts, Garrett J. – NASSP Bulletin, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that may influence school administrators' disciplinary decisions involving students with disabilities. Confirmatory factor analysis suggests that the investigator-developed measures adequately represent the hypothesized latent factors per the pattern of observed responses. The hypothesized…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Factor Analysis, Correlation, Administrator Attitudes
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997: Selected Observations.
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Morrissey, Patricia – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
In passing the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997, Congress tackled tough issues regarding educating students with disabilities. This article addresses four changes to IDEA and their implications for secondary principals, including suspension of handicapped students without educational services, development of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Discipline, Expulsion