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Sylvan, Lesley – Educational Policy, 2018
This research contrasts two urban school districts that serve similar populations yet vary notably with respect to the provision of speech and language services. The results suggest that variation in the provision of speech-language services is driven by district-level variations in budgetary and legal contexts as well as procedural differences.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Urban Population, Language Impairments
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Printy, Susan M.; Williams, Sean M. – Educational Policy, 2015
The reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 spurred sweeping changes for how special education students are identified in the United States. IDEA 2004 encourages schools to use Response to Intervention (RTI) as a new method for identifying special education students. As schools implement RTI, the principal…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Response to Intervention, Educational Improvement
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Brown, Tara M. – Educational Policy, 2012
This article examines school removals and transitions among nine special education students. First, the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the local school discipline policy and special education contexts are discussed. Next, drawing from participants' narrative accounts, the ways in which policy mandates and contextual…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Special Education, Discipline
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Madaus, Joseph W.; Shaw, Stan F. – Educational Policy, 2008
There is a paucity of research related to the implementation of the procedural regulations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in public schools. Section 504 is a general education civil rights law designed to provide access for students with disabilities. This study presents data from a survey that was distributed to a range of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, General Education, Psychologists, School Psychologists