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Such areas of contention include: 1) Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs), 2) transition plans, 3) evaluations, 4) reevaluations, 5) parental consent, 6) special education teachers, child find, 7) private schools and charter schools, 8) early intervening services, 9) accommodations, 10) alternate assessment, 11) education records, 12) mediation, 13) Parent notice, 14) Prior written notice, 15) due process complaint notice, 16) due process hearings 17) Resolution sessions, 18) discipline, 19) positive behavioral intervention plans, 20) interim alternative placements, 21) manifestation review hearings ("Wrightslaw: Idea 2004," 2011).
The future of the act is featured in the 2008 update. There are still a lot of issues that were not fully cleared up. Much of the issues are at their base financial in nature, especially since the designation of someone as a person with right to compensation, special services or protection under the act (Friedline, 2011).
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 was then pledged to invest $100 billion in the facilitation of the provisions of the IDEA Act. In addition, the Department of Education has made the reporting requirements more routine and less burdensome over time. While the many of the original reporting requirements were a challenge to many of the states, since, many them have become normal to the school boards in terms of the states and school districts. The execution requirements have been normalized by developed systems that leave the school districts and the states with fewer...
Those funds have therefore maintained a high quality of education that would have otherwise been sacrificed due to the states' financial straits during the recession. Without the continued availability of the federal funds and with state and local revenues still far below pre-recession levels, the states are still struggling to meet obligations including the investment in expanded capacity and reforms (ibid.).
In essence, the continued funding provided by ARRA must continue to keep coming for the provisions of the IDEA Act to be provided for. Hopefully, this will be the case for the administration of Barack Obama or its successor in the near future.
Conclusion
In this essay, the author detailed the history of special education, updates and the laws associated with the IDEA Act. We have discussed the current and future challenges that the laws have on special education. We have also seen that the updates to the law have not relieved expensive and litigious problems with the administration of the IDEA Act.
References
Eligibility. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/elig.index.htm.
Friedline, T. (2011, December 23). Individuals with disabilities education act (idea). Retrieved from http://newamerica.net/taxonomy/term/1900.
Wrightslaw: Idea 2004. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.wrightslaw.com/bks/idea04/index.htm.
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