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1 CIS H 3412
TITLE: IDEA and School
Discipline
CIS-NO: 2001-H341-2
SOURCE: Committee on Education
and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Aug. 24, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+83 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-117
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26168-1.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-117. Hearing in
Corryton, Tenn., to examine implementation of Department of Education programs
under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),
providing grants to State and local agencies for the education of children with
disabilities, including provisions which limit the disciplinary measures that
school districts can take against disabled children.
Supplementary material (p. 31-83) includes witnesses' written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Spec educ programs review and student
discipline issues
DESCRIPTORS:
TENNESSEE; SPECIAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION REGULATION;
STUDENTS; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; FEDERAL AID TO
STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; CORRYTON, TENN.;
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION
ACT
01-H341-2 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Aug. 24, 2000
p. 7-30, 41-82
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
COFFEY, VERNON (Commissioner, Tennessee Department of
Education)
HAGOOD, JAMIE (State Representative, Tennessee)
LINDSEY, CHARLES (Superintendent, Knox County Schools,
Knoxville, Tenn)
BAIRD, JAMIE (public school teacher)
IRICK, ANGIE (mother of disabled student)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Difficulty of IDEA
implementation, focusing on school discipline issues; specifics on IDEA
implementation in Tennessee; perspectives on educating disabled children under
IDEA.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Spec educ programs
review and student discipline issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
LOAD-DATE: March 6, 2001 
