ERIC Number: EJ1254027
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 13
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
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Making Legally Sound Placement Decisions
Yell, Mitchell L.; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Ennis, Robin Parks; Losinski, Mickey; Bateman, David
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v52 n5 p291-303 May-Jun 2020
The goal of this article is to assist individualized education program (IEP) team personnel to not make errors in the placement of students. To do so the authors: (1) describe what a placement decision is and who makes the decision; (2) review the placement requirements of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2006); (3) examine guidelines from the seminal cases that have addressed placement issues; (4) describe how IEP teams can avoid the most common placement errors; (5) provide a placement flowchart to help IEP teams make legally sound placement decisions; and (6) offer principles to help IEP teams make legally sound placement decisions.
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Placement, Individualized Education Programs, Decision Making, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, Guidelines, Flow Charts, Student Needs, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Special Education, Court Litigation, Error Patterns
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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