Yesterday, October 26th 2010, the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to state departments of education and local school districts to clarify the relationship between bullying and discriminatory harassment under the civil rights laws enforced
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A school district in Alabama violated Section 504 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act because it failed to realize that a 9th grade student's extensive absences and his mother's request for homebound instruction was connected to his medical condition, Crohns disease (Cleburne
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The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has published a report, Selected Cases of Public and Private Schools That Hired or Retained Individuals with Histories of Sexual Misconduct, that reveals findings from 15 cases the GAO exami
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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 blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.
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The Office for Civil Rights determined that the fact that a student with cognitive disabilities never actually filed a written complaint against schoolmates who regularly called him "retard", "stupid", and "moron" did not excuse the district's failure to investigate those incidents as violation
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Since the Response to Intervention (RTI) process was referred to in the IDEA regulations as a means of identifying a student as having a specific learning disability, there has been confusion whether school districts can require students to
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In Springfield School District #186, 55 IDELR 206 (OCR June 29, 2010), the Office for Civil Rights determined that a school district violated Section 504 when it expelled a 7th Grader with ADHD without conducting a manifestation determination.
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On March 17, 2011 the IDEA Fairness Restoration Act was introduced in the Senate (S. 613) by Senators Harkin, Mikulski, and Sanders and in the House (H.R.
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I am often asked whether a student who has disabilities but is making good grades can be eligible for services under Section 504.
