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Bateman, David F., Ed.; Yell, Mitchell L., Ed. – Corwin, 2019
School leaders and special educators are expected to be experts on all levels and types of special education law and services, types of disability, and aspects of academic and functional programming. With the increasing demands of the job and the ever-changing legal and educational climate, many administrators and teachers are overwhelmed, and few…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Legal Problems, Special Education, Program Implementation
Kley, Raymond C.; Glaser, Roberta E. – 1983
This presentation was meant to identify for principals some of the issues surrounding the education of the handicapped by the use of questions and answers that include citations of selected federal court cases. Issues discussed include history of the education of the handicapped, problems related to handicapped student identification and testing…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Disabilities
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Goldberg, Steven S. – Planning and Changing, 1986
Research suggests that federal legislation to resolve educational issues may be unrealistic and unworkable in practice. Parents and school officials accustomed to controlling educational decision making do not appreciate policy imposition from a distant bureaucracy; responses to policy may produce unequal or unfair outcomes when implemented at the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Instructional Improvement
Harvin, David M.; Driggers, Sherry H. – 1992
This study examines activities of the South Carolina Department of Education directed toward implementation of Public Law 99-457 (the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments 1986) which called for special education for preschool children with disabilities. The study specifically documents the number of children served, number of children…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Due Process, Educational Legislation
Benveniste, Guy – 1981
The notion of intervention strategies is introduced in this paper to explain why and when certain change efforts are successful. It is argued that the choice of control points and the selection of control linkages are determined by characteristics of the task in the implementing agency. Many implementation failures can be attributed to the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Farmer, Edgar I., Ed.; Smith, Ronald O., Ed. – 1980
This monograph contains seven papers from a workshop for pre- and in-service administrators and teachers serving special needs students. In "Identification Factors and Criteria for Determining Disadvantaged: Definition of Terms" Edgar I. Farmer, Sr., sets workshop parameters and defines terms. Royce Bland, in "Suggested Techniques…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth