Special education voucher laws are very simple.
The rights of parents are seemingly identical under IDEA and under
special education voucher laws, but the ease with which parents can exercise those rights is profoundly different.
However, Greene and Buck find that vouchers are unlikely to increase the burden on districts:
Special education voucher laws typically stipulate that the voucher amount should reflect the severity of the disability and that the cost to the district may not exceed the average cost the state pays for the education of children with similar conditions.
Special education voucher laws are very straightforward: The parents of any child found in need of a special education can ask the school district to pay for their child's education at a school the parent has identified as appropriate.
Arizona's
special education voucher law was struck down by the state courts after a challenge from the teachers union and civil liberties groups, which claimed that the law violated a state constitutional provision barring any public funds from flowing to religious institutions.
Not exact matches
Measures on knotty issues expected to be the heart of the Individuals with Disabilities Act revision — reducing paperwork related to the
law, disciplining
special education students, «fully funding» the
law, and offering a
voucher program for students with disabilities — will...
Among the pluses: Florida's excellent accountability system for schools; a longitudinal database containing student data from pre-K through age 20; a strong charter - school
law;
special -
education vouchers; and a tax - credit program for corporate donations to private - school scholarship programs.
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Fielding questions from members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, she said that states should decide how to address chronic absenteeism, mental health issues and suicide risks among students and that states should also decide whether children taking
vouchers are protected by federal
special -
education law.