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The Chanda Smith Consent Decree: Economic Perspectives of a Court-Mandated Reform.
Booker, Myra Martin – School Business Affairs, 1998
By signing a Consent Decree in March 1996, the Los Angeles Unified School District admitted its system had serious problems in delivering special-education services to over 65,000 students and agreed to correct the problems in compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This article explains how districts can incorporate…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Testimony of Marilyn Rauth, Director, Educational Issues Department, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, to the Subcommittee on Select Education, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, on the Secretary's Task Force Report on Equal Educational Opportunity for Handicapped Children.
Rauth, Marilyn – 1980
The efforts of federal agencies (in particular, the Office of Special Education and the Office of Civil Rights) to monitor, enforce, and assist local agencies do not go far enough or look deeply enough to fully address the problems in assuring equal educational opportunities for handicapped children. Schools and state and local governments do not…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Educational Legislation, Equal Education
"To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of All Handicapped Children." Second Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of Public Law 94-142: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act.
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Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
The document is the third in a series of reports on progress in implementing P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Six chapters each address a particular question regarding implementation. Chapter 1 investigates the numbers and types of handicapped children being provided special education and related services, and examines…
Descriptors: Administration, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Guidelines for Vocational Placement, Assessment and Training of the Handicapped. Special Needs Handbook, Volume II.
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1981
This second volume of a handbook for vocational educators in secondary schools in Alabama contains guidelines that should be considered by vocational education and special education personnel during the program placement and training of special education students. The guide is divided into four sections. Section 1 introduces the federal…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Guides, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
All You Ever Wanted to Know about Special Needs But Didn't Know Who to Ask. Special Needs Handbook.
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1980
This loose-leaf format handbook is designed to aid vocational teachers, vocational administrators, and others who have responsibility in conducting or administering services to the handicapped and disadvantaged in Alabama under Public Laws 94-142 and 94-482. The information contained in the handbook is compiled from answers to questions on…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Definitions, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
State Plan for Special Education: Fiscal Years 1991-1993.
Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1990
This state plan for the delivery of special education services to exceptional children in Kansas begins with submission statements and certification documents. The plan then presents policy information concerning the following areas: full educational opportunities goal; free, appropriate public education; screening and evaluation; individualized…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advisory Committees, Child Advocacy, Confidentiality