Exceptional+Children+Decision+Points



 * ===**FAPE--Free, Appropriate Public Education:** the standard for providing services to students with disabilities under IDEA===
 * ===**Appropriate** - -a program that is designed in compliance with IDEA to provide educational benefit for a student with a disability===
 * **LRE--Least Restrictive Environment: ** s**tudents with disabilities must, to the maximum extent appropriate, be educated with their peers**
 * **Due Process of Law: ** **decisions regarding the education of students with disabilities must be made within the boundaries of due process of law that are established in IDEA**
 * ===**Reasonable accommodations** ===

**__Links to special ed law sites:__**
[|WrightsLaw]

[|Law and Special Ed site of Mitchell Yell]

[|Special Ed Law Blog of Charles Fox]

[|Special Ed Law Blog of Jim Gerl]

[|Commonwealth of Virginia Spec Ed Law resource page]

[|New Hampshire Ed Law resources]