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Focuses on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the United States. Access given to out-of-school kids; Focus on individualized education plan; Benefits of seeing the IDEA as part of the overall education system; Controversy surrounding the law.

The article discusses the legacy of the U.S. law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), originally known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975. Topics include the lack of federal funding for IDEA special education provisions, a cultural change in the role of people with disabilities in the U.S., and the funding formula for allocation of federal funds to state special education funding.

The article looks at how the U.S. Supreme Court is to decide whether parents who are not lawyers will be allowed to represent their children in federal court in disputes with school districts over the child's educational placement. The article discusses the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The article informs that the U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply divided over the question of whether the main federal special education law allows parents to be reimbursed for the costs of experts when they prevail in legal proceedings. The case argued on April 19 asks whether a court may require a school district to pay the fees of an expert who assists parents when the parents win a legal dispute with the district over the educational plan provided for their child under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The article reports that the federal special education law, known today as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, will be 30 years old this week. On December 2, 1975, the U.S. President Gerald R. Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA), known commonly then as Public Law 94-142. The driving force for the EHA in 1975 was the need to create access to educational opportunity for students with disabilities. In addition to educational services, schools routinely fund full-time nurses, daily one-to-one in-home therapies, hospital placements, residential schools, and other therapies, ranging from physical, speech, and music therapy to horseback riding.

Comments on the Individual Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the United States. Constitution of the largest unfunded federal mandate in American education; Creation of perverse incentives that have deepened stratification within public education; Evolution of the program.

Reports on the United States Department of Education's March 1999 modification of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Related funding issues; Disciplining of violent or disruptive children with disabilities; Suspension of a disabled student; Students' individualized education plans; Teacher's responsibilities. INSET: Report charts rise in spec. ed. enrollment..

The article focuses on a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to not hear a case involving private school placement for children with disabilities. The case questions whether parents should enroll their children in public schools before moving them and seeking reimbursement for private school tuition. The case is similar to the Board of Education of New York City v. Tom F. Parents are permitted by the U.S. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to put their children in private schools.

The article reports on an educational law passed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in California. According to the law, California students with disabilities who are scheduled to graduate in 2006 will not have to pass the state's high school exit test. Under the law, students with an individual education plan who have met all other state requirements for a diploma, and received remediation for the test if the help was available, will be able to graduate whether or not they've passed the exam. The law was seen as an opportunity for the state to improve instruction for those with disabilities.

A recent report by the National Council on Disability of the U.S. says that the "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001 did not address issues important to students with disabilities. The council, an advisory group of presidentially appointed experts on disabilities issues, says in the report that parts of the law, a rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, threaten the effectiveness of the nation's main special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The report says, the No Child Left Behind law does not make clear how school choice provisions or teacher-training requirements would be applied with regard to students with disabilities.

Reports on the plan of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge to pull out a federal program from the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act that will pay for education services for disabled infants and toddlers.

Examines the implications of the amendment to the 1975 Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) which aims to provide quality education to handicapped students. Criteria for eligibility to the program; Rules in disciplining students; Aims of the administration proposal includes encouragement of states to serve more infants and toddlers at risk.