WrightsLaw.com: Behavior & Discipline: What are Schools Required to Do?

IDEA protects a child with a disability from losing the right to FAPE because of behavior caused by their disabilities.

Yet, today, schools continue to suspend and expel students with disabilities for behavior. Often this behavior is a minor infraction of the school code of conduct.

In this issue of the Special Ed Advocate you will learn about the school’s responsibility in behavior and discipline issues and the newest data and guidance from US DOE about improving school discipline policies.

http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/14/nl.0304.htm

By Gregory in Guidance Documents, Resource Library on March 7, 2014