The phrase
"handicapped students" refers to students who have disabilities or challenges that may make it harder for them to learn or participate in school activities compared to other students.
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Philadelphia — Asserting that «these kids can't wait,» the federal judge who presided over a special - education case that influenced the development of the federal handicapped - students law charged last week that educators are failing to provide
severely handicapped students with the one thing they most need: specially trained teachers.
Chicago — Two years ago, Louisiana's statewide special - education district decided to install a computerized system for tracking and managing information on some 2,400
handicapped students in state - operated residential facilities.
In addition,
handicapped students who need special accommodations can request those accommodations when they apply for the examination.
Washington — A lawyer for a Texas school district asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to rule that a federal anti-discrimination statute requires schools to provide
handicapped students with medical care only for purposes of diagnosis and evaluation.
The U.S. Education Department's office for civil rights has cited the Kanawha (W. Va.) County Board of Education for
keeping handicapped students on buses longer than is allowed under state regulations.
A federal appeals court has ruled that schools must use state law as a standard in serving
handicapped students where its provisions exceed federal law.
«We serve children from age four, all the way up to our post-high students, who are our
most handicapped students that stay with us until they are 21,» says Superintendent Pam Moran.
Reduction of all tax funding of private education via vouchers back to the original intent — accommodation of
handicapped student needs.
Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically
handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).
Consistently, cooperative - learning effects have been found on outcomes such as self - esteem, intergroup relations, acceptance of
academically handicapped students, attitudes toward school, and ability to work cooperatively.
It is my belief that we need standards which do
not handicap students, particularly as it relates to cognitive growth, spascial reasoning and intellectual skills.
Includes teachers who specialize and work with audibly and
visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.
Many institutional bodies in America will not put e-readers in the public classroom because of lobby groups saying the devices
alienate handicapped students, and they do have a point.
School officials say they are attempting to fill more than 700 vacant positions in the program
for handicapped students.
A school with a half dozen
severely handicapped students could be costing $ 1 million more than a school with the exact same enrollment and characteristics.
The House bill, HR 7, would allow 80 percent of funds from the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to flow directly to local school districts using a formula that is based on a district's number of Chapter 1 students, number
of handicapped students, and overall enrollment.
From providing free cakes to proms for
handicapped students, to making sure that we pay our employees above the minimum wage, to using environmentally healthy products, we've striven to run our business to the glory of God and to the furtherance of His Kingdom.
• Colleges and universities must make reasonable modifications in academic requirements, where necessary, to ensure full educational opportunity for
handicapped students.
Also, it began with identification of failing schools rather than
handicapped students, and that too, made it more threatening.
He said a spot check of 9,000 of the county's 38,000 students showed that 50 percent of
the handicapped students traveled longer distances to schools than...
Under the rules of the program as approved by the legislature last year, the families of
handicapped students would have been obligated — like other participating families — to pay any transportation costs for their children to attend school in a district other than the one in which they lived.
But this section occurs in the chapter relating to «employment» and can not be interpreted as providing three percent reservations for admission of
handicapped students to various seats in the educational institutions.
Carpooling is the only transportation plan, services for
handicapped students are minimally described and no location has been announced.
The Washington Supreme Court held that Washington's first Blaine Amendment (Article I, Section 11) prevented the state from using public funds to pay for
a handicapped student's seminary studies.
It was recognized that new instruments and methods need to be developed for identification of gifted students in specific populations, (such as disadvantaged, ethnic minorities, students with limited English - speaking ability, exceptionally gifted students and
handicapped students.
''... new instruments and methods need to be developed for identification of gifted students in specific populations, such as disadvantaged, ethnic minorities, students with limited English - speaking ability, exceptionally gifted students and
handicapped students» (pp. 77 - 78, emphasis added).
The new President, George W. Bush, charged educators with embracing the «soft bigotry of low expectations,» saying, in effect, that they had accepted the money but had never actually expected low - income, minority and
handicapped students to perform much better.
Teach elementary school subjects to educationally and physically
handicapped students.
Teach preschool school subjects to educationally and physically
handicapped students.
Teach secondary school subjects to educationally and physically
handicapped students.
Teachers do not want to
handicap their students — or their school's ranking — by skipping topics.
Special educators especially can take some of this science as they develop individual plans for
their handicapped students.