Progress of Compliance with Public Law 94-142: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Progress Being Made by the District of Columbia to Comply with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, June 20, 1986 |
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addition amount audit Average Daily Population Bowie State College Care/End of Month Commissioner Committed & Detained committee contractor controls costs D.C. Public Schools DCPS Department of Education Department of Human Director District of Columbia documentation DODARO DUKES MCKENZIE education and related educational agency ensure evaluation Exercised Option facilities FAUNTROY Firm Fixed fiscal years 1984 Fixed Price funds group home HAMM handicapped children handicapped delinquents Human Services implementation individualized education program institutions interagency intermediate educational unit invoices June 20 Letter Contracts MCKINNEY monitoring negotiated services contracts November 29 Oak Hill Office overtime payroll percent personnel policies Population Committed Population Detained position descriptions problems procedures Public Law Receiving Home recommendations Reimbursable related services request responsibility SALVEMINI schedule September Sole Source special education staff staffing submitted subsection tion U.S. Department YOUTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION YSA contracts YSA employees YSA's
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Page 312 - related services' means transportation, and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services (including speech pathology and audiology, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, and medical and counseling services, except that such medical services shall be for diagnostic and evaluation purposes only) as may be required to assist a handicapped child to benefit from special education, and includes the early identification and assessment of handicapping conditions...
Page 327 - Such new or modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence. (c) Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Commissioner or to set it aside, in whole or in part. The judgment of the court shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of title 28, United States Code.
Page 331 - The term does not include children who have learning problems which are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Page 313 - individualized education program" means a written statement for each handicapped child developed in any meeting by a representative of the local educational agency or an intermediate educational unit who shall be qualified to provide, or supervise the provision of, specially designed instruction to meet the unique needs of handicapped children...
Page 325 - ... refuses to initiate or change, the identification, evaluation, or educational placement of the child or the provision of a free appropriate public education to the child; "(D) procedures designed to assure that the notice required by clause (C) fully inform the parents or guardian, in the parents...
Page 325 - The procedures required by this section shall include, but shall not be limited to — "(A) an opportunity for the parents or guardian of a handicapped child to examine all relevant records with respect to the identification, evaluation, and educational placement of the child...
Page 327 - ... the court the record of the further proceedings. Such new or modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence.
Page 312 - special education' and 'related services' to include, the term 'special education' means specially designed instruction, at no cost to parents or guardians, to meet the unique needs of a handicapped child, including classroom instruction, instruction in physical education, home instruction, and instruction in hospitals and institutions...
Page 327 - Commissioner thereupon shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which he based his action, as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States Code.
Page 312 - It is the purpose of this Act to assure that all handicapped children have available to them, within the time periods specified in section 612(2) (B), a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs...