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      "date": "1997-06-04",
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      "title": "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization Legislation: An Overview",
      "summary": "The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) authorizes several programs to support\nand\nimprove early intervention and special education for infants, toddlers, children and youth with\ndisabilities. The 105th Congress has considered legislation to amend, revise, and extend IDEA. The\nPresident signed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997,  P.L. 105-17 ,\non June 4, 1997. The amendments are comprehensive in nature and address a wide range of legal\nand programmatic issues affecting early intervention and special education.\n    Discipline    . Schools have specific statutory\n authority to remove certain misbehaving students\nwith disabilities from classrooms and place them in alternative settings for up to 45 days. New, but\nlimited, authority is given to hearing officers to change the placement of disabled children.\n    Cessation of Educational Services    . Disabled\n students are specifically entitled to special\neducational services, even if expelled from school.\n    Attorneys' Fees    . There are some new limits on the\n recovery of attorneys' fees by parents of\nchildren with disabilities.\n    Mediation    . Before parents could request a formal\n due process hearing over a dispute about the\nschooling of their disabled child, they must be offered mediation and encouraged through counseling\nto try mediation first to resolve the issue.\n    Allocation Formulas    . There are new state and\n substate formulas in the grants to states and\npreschool programs. In general, awards are to be based on broader population factors rather than\ncounts of disabled children served. Because of the significant change in formula factors, however,\nseveral additional provisions are added to help mitigate shifts in allotment patterns among states.\n    Educational Improvement    . Each disabled child's\n individualized education program must\nrelate programming for the child to achievement in the general education curriculum. Further, states\nmust establish performance goals and indicators for disabled pupils as well as include disabled pupils\nin assessments.\n    Local Relief    . When federal appropriations for the\n grants to states program exceed $4.1 billion\nand a school district gets a larger award, the district would be permitted to reduce local spending on\nspecial education by a certain amount.\n     Special Purpose Programs and Infants and Toddlers\n Program    . The 14 discretionary grant\nprograms are consolidated into two new special purpose programs. A third new special purpose\nprogram focuses on statewide special education reform. The early intervention program is revised\nand extended through FY2002.",
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    "Appropriations",
    "Domestic Social Policy",
    "Education Policy"
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