Education Rights of Students with Disabilities
Question & Answer

Question 1:  Must notice of procedural safeguards under IDEA be written in plain English?

Question 2:  Do Parents Have A Right under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act To See Their Children’s Responses on State and District Assessments?

Question 3:  Is it true that schools may access a child’s Medicaid or other public health insurance to pay for special education and related services without parental consent?

Question 4: How can Section 504 and Title II of the ADA be used to help ensure that students with disabilities have meaningful opportunities to learn what all students are expected to learn under standards-based education reforms?

Question 5:  How can Section 504 and Title II of the ADA be used to help ensure that students with disabilities have meaningful opportunities to learn what all students are expected to learn under standards-based education reforms?

Question 6: When must a school system provide extended school year services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA")?

Question 7:  Does the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA") require states to take any particular steps before changing state policies and procedures regarding the provision of a free appropriate public education to children with disabilities?

Question 8: Must a state or local school system appoint a surrogate parent for all children who are wards of the state, even if a foster parent is willing to act as the child’s parent for purposes of educational decision making under IDEA?

Question 9: When is a school district required to obtain "informed consent" from a parent of a child with a disability and what is "informed consent"?

Question 10:  Are homeless children with disabilities entitled to a free appropriate public education under federal law, or may schools insist that a child have a fixed address before providing services?

Question 11: Are there limits to a school system’s ability to access a child’s Medicaid or other public insurance to pay for services required to be provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

Question 12:  Does IDEA require, or allow, schools to unilaterally transmit education records to law enforcement authorities when reporting a crime alleged to have been committed by a child with disabilities?

Question 13:  Does IDEA require, or allow, schools to unilaterally transmit education records to law enforcement authorities when reporting a crime alleged to have been committed by a child with disabilities?

Question 14:  Can a school’s choice of methodology for educating a child with disabilities be challenged under IDEA?

Question 15: Who are the "other qualified personnel" who must be members of the group conducting manifestation reviews under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?

Question 16:  Who are the "other qualified personnel" who must be members of the group conducting manifestation reviews under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?

Question 17:  Does the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) require a full-fledged impartial due process hearing before a hearing officer may order a child placed into an interim alternative educational setting?

Question 18:  If a parent feels that her child with a disability is being unfairly denied the opportunity to enroll in a course and an after-school program because, among other things, the parent has filed a request for due process challenging the appropriateness of the child’s program, requests permission each week to observe her child’s classroom, and has twice requested the IEP team to reconvene to review the effectiveness of her child’s IEP in preparing her child to meet the standards set for all other students, what does the parent need to demonstrate in order to obtain a finding of retaliation against the school district by the Office for Civil Rights?

Question 19:  Does federal law grant parents and students rights to correct erroneous information contained in school records?