Report: ESEA Falls Short On Disabilities Issues.

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.