The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that a training manual used by an educational service agency to train school district staff regarding 504 contained numerous erroneous statements of the law including incorrect 504 eligibility standards (St.
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The Department of Justice recently posted on its website a customer friendly guide called Frequently Asked Questions about Filing an ADA Complaint. This guide, provided in a question and answer format, leads the reader through the compl
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On October 5th, 2010 President Obama signed S.
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The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was originally passed in 1975.
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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
