Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 1995
Publication Source
Planning and Changing: An Educational Leadership and Policy Journal
Abstract
With the passage of the Education for all Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) in 1975, the United States Congress sought to provide educational opportunity to all children. In 1990, with added amendments, the law was renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Turnbull reported in 1993 that Congress had found approximately one-half of the nation's eight million children with disabilities were not receiving an appropriate education and about one million were receiving no education at all. Clearly, in the past two decades since the passage of the Education for all Handicapped Children Act school administrators have, on a daily basis, made decisions that either uphold or violate the rights of students With disabilities as they are set forth in the IDEA. The purpose of this study was to assess the status of administrators' understanding of this important federal mandate, specifically administrators-in-training at three universities. The critical role of the school administrator in the lives of children with special needs was the impetus of this investigation. How well are they prepared for decision-making? How well do they understand the mandates they are required to fulfill?
Inclusive pages
43-56
ISBN/ISSN
0032-0684
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 1996, Planning and Changing: An Educational Leadership and Policy Journal
Publisher
Illinois State University College of Education
Volume
26
Issue
1-2
Peer Reviewed
yes
eCommons Citation
Nelson, William R. and Ridenour, Carolyn, "Administrators' Understanding of the Federal Special Education Mandate: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act." (1995). Educational Leadership Faculty Publications. 125.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eda_fac_pub/125
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Educational Leadership Commons, Higher Education Administration Commons, Other Educational Administration and Supervision Commons, Special Education Administration Commons, Urban Education Commons
Comments
This document is made available for download with the permission of the publisher. Permission documentation is on file. View the journal online at http://education.illinoisstate.edu/planning/.