Section 504, School Field Trips, and Students with Disabilities

  In a previous post, Opening the School Door to Section 504, I discussed the Section 504 and ADA requirements to provide services to children with disabilities. If you are not familiar with how section 504 applies to public elementary and secondary schools, you might check out that article before continuing with this article.
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Second Edition of The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law Now Available

  Readers, at the end of May I posted that the Second Edition of my book The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law was available for preorder. The book is here and can be ordered now.
 
  Like the previous book, the second edition contains information about obtaining a free appropriate public education, IEPs, discipline, [...]

From the Outside Looking In: Independent Educational Evaluations

   The parents’ right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of their child is an important IDEA procedural safeguard. School districts conduct evaluations to provide information to the student’s IEP team to determine whether a student has a disability and, if so, the services the student will need. Thus, a student’s school program is [...]