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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law that makes an appropriate, free public education available to eligible children with disabilities and ensures special education and related services to those children. The IDEA is located in the U.S. Code at 20 U.S.C. §1400.

The IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to more than 7.5 million (as of school year 2018-19) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.

Infants and toddlers, birth through age 2, with disabilities and their families receive early intervention services under IDEA Part C. Children and youth ages 3 through 21 receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B.

Additionally, the IDEA authorizes:

• Formula grants to states to support special education and related services and early intervention services.

• Discretionary grants to state educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other nonprofit organizations to support research, demonstrations, technical assistance and dissemination, technology development, personnel preparation and development, and parent-training and -information centers.

Congress reauthorized the IDEA in 2004 and most recently amended the IDEA through Public Law 114-95, the Every Student Succeeds Act, in December 2015.

In the law, Congress states:

Disability is a natural part of the human experience and in no way diminishes the right of individuals to participate in or contribute to society. Improving educational results for children with disabilities is an essential element of our national policy of ensuring equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities.



State Statutes for the State of Texas

CHAPTER 30 - STATE AND REGIONAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

procedure established by the commissioner or through any due process hearing to which the district or school is entitled under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C.

Federal Statutes

§ 300x–1. State plan for comprehensive community mental health services for certain individuals

institutions, to the maximum extent of their capabilities, including services to be provided by local school systems under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.]; (iv) include

§ 2618. Special rules concerning employees of local educational agencies

A local educational agency and a private elementary or secondary school shall not be in violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.), section 794 of this title,

§ 5011. Grants and contracts for individual service projects

homes for dependent and neglected children, or who are receiving services provided by day care centers, schools , early intervention programs under part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C

§ 1154. Assistance to eligible members and former members to obtain employment as teachers: Troops-to-Teachers Program

applicable to a family of the size involved; or (ii) at least 13 percent of the students enrolled in the school qualify for assistance under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1411

§ 6311. State plans

assessments may delay or otherwise affect the student from completing the requirements for a regular high school diploma; (III) promotes, consistent with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C