This paper is intended to provide school officials and teachers with the necessary legal background, procedural requirements, and guidance for appropriate implementation of individualized educational programs (IEPs) with violent students with disabilities. Specifically it addresses: (1) the legal background of special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (2) required procedures and issues related to discipline, including procedural safeguards, due process, notice, evaluation, IEP development, placement, placement changes, the stay-put provision, the Jeffords amendment, and preliminary injunction; and (3) discipline and proper IEP implementation including long-term suspension and expulsion, required procedures for the discipline of students, determination of the relationship between misconduct and disability, short-term suspension, case laws regarding discipline and IEP implementation, and discipline and IEP components. Flow charts illustrate appropriate discipline procedures in different situations. (Contains 28 references.) (DB)