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Current developments in special education law

Statutes and regulations relevant to the practice of special education law

• IDEA 2004: federal special education statutes with commentary here.
  

• Part 300:federal regulations implementing IDEA 2004

• Code of Federal Regulations: the entire code of federal regulations
  
• Article 89: New York State Education statutes governing special education
  • follow the links from this to EDN, then Art. 89.
    

• Part 200: New York State special education regulations
• Part 100: New York State regulations governing elementary and secondary school programs
• Part 201: New York State regulations governing discipline of students with disabilities
• NYCRR: the entire code of New York State regulations
• FERPA: federal regulations governing the privacy of student educational records(see also here for general FERPA information)

Administrative decisions

• SRO(State Review Office) decisions: by year and by topic
• Commissioner's decisions: New York State decisions of the Commissioner of Education
• ethics opinions: New York State Bar Association ethics opinions

Legal Research

• Developments in Special Education Law: Blog highlighting important cases and legislative activity

• OSEP policy memos
• NYS legislative activity: track current status of pending state legislation
• Federal legislative activity: track current status of pending federal legislation
  

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