children with disabilities
IDEA Fairness Restoration Act introduced in Congress
Ability Law Blog Post
On March 17, 2011 the IDEA Fairness Restoration Act was introduced in the Senate (S. 613) by Senators Harkin, Mikulski, and...
Court Rules Parents Entitled to Private School Tuition...
Ability Law Blog Post
In Mr. and Mrs. A v. New York City Department of Education , a United States District Court has ruled that under certain...
OSEP Clarifies that RTI Process Cannot Delay-Deny IDEA...
Ability Law Blog Post
Since the Response to Intervention (RTI) process was referred to in the IDEA regulations as a means of identifying a...
School Should Have Been Proactive to Protect Student with...
Ability Law Blog Post
The Office for Civil Rights determined that the fact that a student with cognitive disabilities never actually filed a written...
2010 in review
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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall...
GAO Reports on Cases of Public and Private Schools that...
Ability Law Blog Post
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has published a report, Selected Cases of Public and Private Schools That Hired or...
Schools Must Proactively Provide Evaluations Under Section...
Ability Law Blog Post
A school district in Alabama violated Section 504 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act because it failed to...
Department of Education Issues Guidance Targeting...
Ability Law Blog Post
Yesterday, October 26th 2010, the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to...
Celebrating 35 Years of the IDEA:The U.S. Department of...
Ability Law Blog Post
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was originally passed in 1975.
President Obama Signs Rosa's Law Eliminating the"...
Ability Law Blog Post
On October 5th, 2010 President Obama signed S. 2781, known as Rosa's law, requiring the federal government to replace the...
