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Gillet, Pamela – Education Unlimited, 1980
The current status of minimal competency tests for special education students is discussed with particular emphasis on the legal implications. (SBH)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Hathaway, Walter E. – 1981
More than thirty states, as well as numerous local school districts, have adopted some form of student minimum competency program. Such programs vary widely in their purposes which range all the way from instructional and curriculum planning to deciding whether students are promoted from grade to grade. Thus far, there has been little actual…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Legislation
Peer reviewedLanford, Allyson D.; Cary, Lynn G. – Remedial and Special Education, 2000
Discussion of high school graduation requirements for students with disabilities focuses on legal and practical issues including graduation standards, minimum competency testing, and termination of services. Recommendations are offered to help school districts establish a process for graduating students with disabilities within the legal framework…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Larsen, Stephen, Ed. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1980
The issue of Exceptional Education Quarterly addresses several major issues affecting the measurement of exceptionality in the schools. (SB)
Descriptors: Administration, Competence, Culture Fair Tests, Disabilities
Mid-Atlantic Teacher Corps Network, Philadelphia, PA. – 1979
The conference's keynote address is presented by Bernard C. Watson. Papers include: Vantage from the State Department of Education, by Robert G. Scanlon (Pennsylvania); Minimum Competency: As the Public Sees the Question, by Jacqueline Grennan Wexler; Minimum Competency Testing (MCT): A Tripartite Response from the Profession, by W. James Popham;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bureaucracy, Community Attitudes, Educational Policy
Tractenberg, Paul L.; Kahn, Laura – 1979
Legal issues of minimum competency testing derive from federal and state constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, and from common law. Constitutional provisions for equal protection, due process, and freedom of belief and privacy, are primarily federal; education provisions are state mandated. Only four court cases have directly…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation, Due Process
McGhehey, M. A., Ed. – 1981
This volume is a collection of 21 papers concerning law and education presented by speakers of widely divergent points of view at the annual convention of the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education (NOLPE). The opinions expressed in the papers are solely those of the authors and do not represent any policy determination of NOLPE. The…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Copyrights
