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Supports initiatives to help low income families access high quality education programs. Includes free and reduced lunches, extra teachers for resources.
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Defines handicapped person, appropriate education. Prohibits decriminalization against students in federally funded programs.
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Requires states to provide free appropriate education for children with disabilities 5-18. Requires IEP, first to define least restrictive environment. Also known as the Mainstreaming act.
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Benefited individuals with emotional and/or behavior disorders who have academic and social problems. Ruled that schools could not expel children for behaviors related to their disability.
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Allows special education staff who are working in mainstream classrooms to assist general education students when needed.The act is a four-part piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education that is tailored to their individual needs.
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Requires at least 95% of students with disabilities participate in statewide assessments for standard measures of yearly progress for school-age children. The law held schools accountable for how kids learned and achieved.The law was controversial in part because it penalized schools that didn’t show improvement.
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Increases federal funds to provide early intervention services to students who do not need special education or related services. Eliminates use of short-term objectives in an IEP except for students who do not take statewide achievement assessments. Raises standards for special education licensure.
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By 2009, U.S. Department of Education estimates showed that, about 5.8 million of the nation’s schoolchildren, ages 6 to 21, were receiving special education services through IDEA.More than half of all students with disabilities spend at least 80 percent of their time in the regular classroom.
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President Barack Obama signed Rosa’s Law, which changed the references in federal law from “mental retardation to intellectual disability, and references to a mentally retarded individual to an individual with an intellectual disability.” This was in hopes to cultivate a healthy atmosphere for learning in our country’s schools. The law was put in place as an effort to promote more inclusion in the classroom.
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For example, virtual schools, blended learning, and live streaming teachers all integrate technology into the classroom environment. Ultimately, when considering technology used in special education, the horizons are bright. https://www.proxlearn.com/special-education-in-the-united-states-2018 (webpage)
(video) https://youtu.be/PiOwkjLQlBY
