Re: IDEA 2004 gave cash-starved school districts written and legal permission to stop referring students

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This is a great article on the problem of IDEA enforcement and what

parents are up against. There is an opportunity to post your

comments as well.

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> IDEA 2004 gave cash-starved school districts written and legal

> <http://ednews.org/articles/21601/1/IDEA-2004-gave-cash-starved-

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> permission to stop referring students

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> Marcie Lipsitt

> Columnist EdNews.org

> Too often chronically exhausted, feeling broken, beaten and in a

constant

> state of compromise; parents of students with disabilities are

unfortunately

> for their children the most inefficient and ineffective of all

advocacy

> groups in the United States, and clearly no match for the teacher

unions,

> state departments of education and special interest groups working

against

> them and their children.

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> Jimmy Kilpatrick

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> <http://juveniledefender.net/> JuvenileDefender.net

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