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- School for Deaf to offer day class for special-needs kids
- FREMONT -- A lawsuit against the California School for the Deaf and the state Department of Education brought on by the parents of a deaf and autistic child who claimed their daughter was denied an appropriate public education has been settled. The suit, filed in April 2006,...
- Research articles 2007-09-14
- Going the Distance to Train Teachers for Students with Severe Disabilities: The University of Utah Distance Teacher Education Program
- Abstract Research indicates that there is a significant and chronic shortage of highly-qualified special education teachers nationally. Although the shortages of highly-qualified teachers are pervasive across all disability categories they are particularly significant in the area of severe disabilities. This is especially true in rural and remote areas. The general...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Racial disparities in federal disability benefits
- I. INTRODUCTION The Social Security Administration SSA administers the two largest federal programs providing cash assistance to people with disabilities, the Disability Insurance DI program, and the Supplemental Security Income SSI program. For the public to perceive that SSA's disability programs are run with the highest degree of integrity,...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Federal Judge Allows Discrimination Suit against California School for the Deaf
- STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford Legal Clinic's Youth & Education Law Project YELP and Bingham McCutchen LLP, have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a multi-disabled deaf child who has been denied access to services and programs at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, CA CSDF. On Thursday, a...
- Research articles 2006-10-09
- Assessing students with disabilities.(Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities by Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services)(Brief article)
- A "Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities" is available from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The Tool Kit includes a set of technical assistance products that offer research-based approaches in the areas of assessment, instruction, ...
- Research articles 2006-08-15
- Congress may cut 2007 IDEA funding: advocacy needed to stop the "downward spiral" expected next year.(PEOPLE)(Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act)
- In coming weeks, the House and Senate will vote on the budget for the federal government for 2007. If Congress follows the President Bush's budget on funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act IDEA, the federal share of special education funding will go into...
- Research articles 2006-04-11
- CRITICAL POINT IN THE DISABILITIES MOVEMENT: HOW WILL TENNESSEE V. LANE AFFECT CLAIMS BROUGHT UNDER TITLE II OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT?
- INTRODUCTION The rights of nearly 50 million Americans living with a disability are in jeopardy.1 Congress sought to safeguard the rights of disabled individuals with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA").2 One of the Act's major goals was to ensure that persons with disabilities received equal access to...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- ED hears member concerns on IDEA '04.(Department of Education, Individuals With Disabilities Education Act)
- The U.S. Department of Education ED concluded a series of meetings around the country on developing final regulations for the recently reauthorized Individuals With Disabilities Education Act IDEA with a July 12 meeting in Washington, DC. The meeting, which was held...
- Research articles 2005-08-16
- Education progress.
- EDUCATION PROGRESS. The Department of Education reports progress in the education of students with disabilities. Based on the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, it says these students "have made significant progress in their transition to adulthood during the past 25 years with lower dropout rates, an increase...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Congress likely to give IDEA $100 million increase in FY06.(Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
- The state grant program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is likely to receive a $100 million increase next year above the current funding level of $10.59 million. The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended $10.69 billon for state special education grants, and the...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Students With ADHD Need Special Approach to Education.
- Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 5 AScribe Newswire -- Teachers and parents need to learn new methods to help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, according to a Purdue University educational researcher who pulled together 30 years of research...
- Research articles 2005-07-05
- Dr. Roy Grizzard to Keynote National Leadership Summit for Youth with Disabilities
- News Advisory: Assistant Secretary for Office of Disability Employment Policy Dr. Roy Grizzard will keynote a National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, June 15, at 9:20 am. The two-day 2005 National Leadership Summit on Improving Results for Youth will be held at the Capital Hilton Hotel. In response...
- Research articles 2005-06-14
- The status of Web Accessibility of Canadian universities and colleges: a Charter of Rights and Freedoms issue (1).
- The fundamental ideal that access to education and information as one of our basic human rights must not be neglected in the electronic information age. This ideal however is not being met in the area of postsecondary Web accessibility. This study surveyed 350 postsecondary institutions in...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- A close look at No Child Left Behind: at Schools 2004, clinicians and federal officials probe impact of the law.
- Not far from the nation's capital where the No Child Left Behind NCLB law was enacted, nearly 740 participants gathered at ASHA's 2004 Schools Conference at Baltimore's Inner Harbor to take a close look at a law that has left no school district or state unchanged....
- Research articles 2004-09-21
- Learning Innovations at WestEd Wins $6.5 Million Award to Continue to Serve As Northeast Regional Resource Center.
- Byline: WestEd SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14 AScribe Newswire -- Learning Innovations, a program of WestEd, headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in Williston, Vt., and Woburn, Mass., has won a 5-year, $6.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special...
- Research articles 2004-09-14
- Best & brightest.(Neighbor)
- - Amy Lynn Kehl, daughter of Lisa and Gerald Kehl Jr. of Des Plaines, graduated with a master of business administration degree from Quincy University at the May 16 commencement exercises. - Elmhurst College announced the following students graduated during mid-year commencement ceremony Feb....
- Research articles 2004-08-09
- Project lead: a training program for minority educators in special education and educational leadership
- During recent years, the U.S. Department of Education has funded several projects designed to develop and implement personnel preparation for special educators. Unfortunately, few special educators enter administrative positions. This article highlights the opportunities given to educators, the majority from minority backgrounds, to provide significant leadership in their urban communities...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Public School Administrators Urge Senators to Reauthorize Special Education Bill, Support Full Funding Amendment
- ARLINGTON, Va., May 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- School administrators nationwide are urging their senators to support passage of S. 1248, legislation reauthorizing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, because the bill will direct a greater share of each dollar spent to educational services, reduce burdensome paperwork requirements and promote increased...
- Research articles 2004-05-10
- ACTE policy updates.(In Washington)
- As Congress returned for the second session of the 108th Congress on January 20th, members faced a busy calendar and wide range of legislation in the midst of the reauthorization process. Several pieces of this legislation relate to education and workforce development and are of particular...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Court finds disability education bill constitutional
- The Missouri Supreme Court ruled last week that a controversial Missouri House bill, amended by the state Senate, that targeted students with disabilities, does not violate the Missouri Constitution. The original bill, House Bill 2023, introduced in the House in February 2002 as AN ACT To repeal sections...
- Research articles 2003-12-02
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