The Complaint Procedures Avenue of the IDEA: Has the Road Less Traveled by Made All the Difference?

Autor/in	Zirkel, Perry A.
Titel	The Complaint Procedures Avenue of the IDEA: Has the Road Less Traveled by Made All the Difference?
Quelle	In: Journal of Special Education Leadership, 30 (2017) 2, S.88-97 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-1810
Schlagwörter	Grievance Procedures; Educational Legislation; Equal Education; Students with Disabilities; Federal Legislation; State Departments of Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Individualized Education Programs; Comparative Analysis; Parent Grievances + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Student; Students; Disability; Disabilities; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Behinderung; Bundesrecht; Kultusministerium; Individualized education program; Individualisierendes Lernen; Beschwerde
Abstract	Depending on their experience, local special education directors may be familiar with the complaint procedures (CP) avenue that the IDEA requires each state education agency (SEA) to provide. Yet most special education professors and many parents of students with disabilities have negligible knowledge about this avenue of decisional dispute resolution under the IDEA, especially compared with the other alternative--the hearing officer (HO) route. One of the reasons for this lack of knowledge is the limited attention to the CP avenue in the special education literature. For example, many of the texts in special education law do not mention, much less explain, the CP process (e.g., Osborne & Russo, 2016; Weber, Mawdsley, & Redfield, 2013), and others accord it tertiary attention in comparison to the HO process (e.g., Guernsey & Clare, 2008; Yell, 2016). The purpose of this article is to provide an empirical analysis of the CP system in comparison to the HO system with regard to the issue categories, outcomes, and remedies in their respective written decisions. The data are from five of the most active states, and the comparison is not only between these two systems for the total sample but also among the five state subsamples. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Council of Administrators of Special Education. 1675 East Seminole Street Suite L1, Springfield, MO 65804. Tel: 417-427-7720; Fax: 417-427-6520; e-mail: office@casecec.org; Web site: https://www.casecec.org/journal
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01