This book is a must have for special educators and school administrators! Inside you’ll find first-hand accounts of the major policy stakeholders involved in the reauthorization process. The author’s meticulous research and his unique, comprehensive approach to writing promotes an easy grasp of the nature and effects of the policy process that led to the IDEA discipline amendments.

The author begins the text by exploring the origins of the discipline controversy and moves into a discussion of the history and process of the latest IDEA reauthorization. He also examines current effects of the policy and provides a valuable analytic framework for anticipating, understanding, and resolving conflicts associated with future reauthorizations. This book incorporates several years of history, interviews, and analysis and will certainly prove useful for anyone in the Special Education field.

Contents

1. Introduction to Special Education Law and the Discipline Crisis
2. IDEA Discipline Procedures and the Concept of Policy Crisis
3. Origins of the Discipline Controversy
4. The 103rd Congress and Passage of the Gorton/Jeffords Amendment
5. The 104th Congress and the IDEA Discipline Controversy
6. The 105th Congress and IDEA Reauthorization
7. Events following the Passage of IDEA ‘97
8. Nature and Effects of the IDEA Reauthorization Process
9. Potential Effects of Additional IDEA Amendments on the Discipline Controversy
10. The Future of the Discipline Controversy

204 pages
2003/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-294-1
$34.95