News Advisory
NCD #02-358
April 26, 2002
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
National Council on Disability to Testify Before
President's Special Education Commission on the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act
WASHINGTON--The National Council on Disability (NCD)
will provide expert testimony to the President's Commission on Excellence
in Special Education on the reauthorization of the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) on April 26, beginning at 10:30
a.m. at the Wyndham Hotel, 1400 M Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Specifically, NCD will address what works and what
can be improved at the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special
Education Programs (OSEP) so that educational outcomes for children
with disabilities will be improved by the IDEA reauthorization.
During the course of five studies on IDEA and one
on transition issues, from 1989 to 2000, NCD consistently found
that parents of children with disabilities are enthusiastic supporters
of the law. They think it is a good law. Those studies include:
Back
to School on Civil Rights (2000) (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/backtoschool_1.html);
Transition
and Post-School Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities: Closing the
Gaps to Post-Secondary Education and Employment (2000) (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/transition_11-1-00.html);
Improving
the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act: Making Schools Work for All of America's Children (1995)
(http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/95school.html) and its
supplement (1996) (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/96school.html);
Inclusionary
Education for Students with Disabilities: Keeping the Promise
(1994) (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/inclusion.html);
Serving
the Nation's Students with Disabilities: Progress and Prospects
(1993) (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/progress.html);
and, The
Education of Students with Disabilities: Where Do We Stand?
(1989) (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/stand.html).
NCD senior research specialist Martin Gould, Ed.D.
will provide an in-depth analysis of OSEP's monitoring from the
consumer perspectives contained in NCD's Back to School on Civil
Rights report, as they relate to the reauthorization of IDEA.
Dr. Gould's testimony will be posted to the NCD Web
site (http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/testimony/02testimony.html)
at 10:30 a.m. on April 26.
NCD's new working paper on IDEA reauthorization, which
seeks input from IDEA stakeholders on questions related to monitoring
and enforcement, full funding, discipline, eligibility, and over-representation
of students from culturally diverse backgrounds, is available at
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/reauthorizations/idea/idea.html.
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