By Steven E. Lake, Esq.
Addressing the latest legal developments and new case law, the updated Second Edition guides you through the IDEA's rigid timelines and procedures in 15 critical compliance areas -- helping you anticipate potential trouble spots and prevent due process complaints.
Covering identification, eligibility, parental consent, student discipline and 11 more areas, each chapter provides an at-a-glance summary of critical timelines followed by Q&As deciphering IDEA's technical rules and how judges and hearing officers analyze key issues. You gain insights that empower you to:
- Select an impartial mediator and include a system by which the parties can agree on a mediator
- Ask the key questions after Fry to determine if exhaustion of administrative remedies is required
- Meet the obligation to consider data-based documentation of repeated assessments of achievement
- Implement practices and procedures that help an IEP meeting run smoothly and productively
- And more!