IDEA Topical Briefs
The Department of Education has issued a series of topical briefs on the IDEA law. This series of briefs provides a summary of 16 significant IDEA topics. These briefs are only summaries of the law and do not contain any interpretation of the law by the Department.
- CEC briefs compare the 2004 IDEA regulations to the 1997 IDEA regulations
- Discipline
- Disproportionality and Overidentification
- Early Intervening Services
- Evaluations and Reevaluations
- Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers
- IDEA Alignment with NCLB
- IEP Content
- IEP Teams
- LEA Funding
- National Intstuctional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)
- Part C Amendments
- Part C Option
- Private Schools
- Procedural Safeguards I
- Procedural Safeguards II
- Procedural Safeguards III
- Secondary Transition
- State Funding
- Statewide and Districtwide Assessments
