An area of similarity between Section 504 and the IDEA is that both emphasize
a. an equivalency definition of an appropriate education.
b. placement in the least restrictive environment
c. a functional approach to defining a handicap.
d. a set of comprehensive rules for school districts to follow in writing IEPs/504 plans.
Like Section 504, Congress specifically offered compulsive gamblers protection under
the ADA.
a. True
b. False
Search engines allow the researchers to
a. search using keywords
b. use advanced searching techniques
c. focus their search by searching within the results of their query
d. only b and c
e. all of the above
Describe the monitoring and enforcement provisions of the IDEA.
According to the U.S. Supreme Court corporal punishment in schools is prohibited by
the constitution.
a. True
b. False
When addressing problem behavior in an IEP or in behavior intervention plan (BIP) an
IEP team must use positive behavior interventions, strategies, and supports. An entirely
punitive plan is not acceptable.
a. True
b. False
The Section 504 requirement that educational services designed to meet the needs of
students with disabilities must do so as adequately as services designed to meet the
needs of students without disabilities is referred to as
a. Non-discriminatory education.
b. The equivalency principle.
c. Free appropriate public education.
d. Least restrictive environment.
Following the principle of hierarchical application which disciplinary procedure should
be attempted first?
a. Proximity control
b. Response cost
c. Expulsion
d. Timeout
The IDEA creates an absolute right for a student with disabilities to be educated in his
or her neighborhood school.
a. True
b. False
Only the most prestigious law schools produce law reviews.
a. True
b. False
When reviewing special education administrative decisions, courts can only review
existing evidence and cannot allow the admission of new evidence.
a. True
b. False
The IDEA does not establish an absolute limitation on the number of days per school
year students with disabilities can be suspended from school.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following statements regarding the ADA and Section 504 is true?
a. Both laws provide protection against discrimination and federal money to assist
entities in their efforts to eliminate discrimination.
b. Both laws extend protections to federal, state, and local government employees.
c. Both laws protect persons with mental or physical disabilities that substantially limit
one or more major life activities.
d. Both laws protect employees with disabilities in the public and private sectors from
discrimination.
A primary problem with law articles on the internet is that they may have not been
subjected to a rigorous peer review process as have law review articles in a law library.
a. True
b. False
An IEP meeting can be held without a student’s parents in attendance if the school is
unable to convince them that they should attend.
a. True
b. False
As recently as 1958 states continued to enact statutes that authorized school officials to
exclude students with disabilities.
a. True
b. False
An example of a controlled disciplinary procedure is:
a. In-school suspension
b. Response cost
c. Detention
d. Corporal punishment
Explain the major principles of Part B of the IDEA.
Describe the reauthorization process and the various reauthorizations of the IDEA.
All components of a student’s educational program. Even if they are not part of his or
her special education and related services, should be included in the IEP.
a. True
b. False
A finalized IEP can be presented to a student’s parents at the initial IEP meeting.
a. True
b. False
When making an eligibility determination, IDEA 2004 does not allow a student to be
determined to have a disability and be eligible for special education if the determining
factor is lack of appropriate instruction in reading, lack of instruction in math, or
limited English proficiency. This requirement only applies to students with
a. autism.
b. emotional disorders.
c. learning disabilities.
d. mental retardation.
e. All of the above.
The _____________ Amendment to the Constitution has become the legal basis for
special education.
a. 4th
b. 10th
c. 14th
d. 15th
Which of the following cases was resolved by a consent agreement specifying that all
children with mental retardation must be provided a free public education?
a. Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens v. Pennsylvania
b. Beattie v. Board of Education
c. Brown v. Board of Education
d. Mills v. Board of Education
Which of the following disciplinary actions may be a violation of Section 504? (May be
more than one answer)
a. Bill, a 4th grade student with emotional and behavioral disorders, is not allowed to go
on a class field trip because he received an office referral for violating school rules the
week before the trip. Other students in general education classes who received an office
referral during the week before the trip only had to stay in from recess the day they
received the referral.
b. Jeremy, a student in special education, was required to serve one day of in-school
suspension for running in the hall. John, a student in general education was also caught
running in the hall, he was sent to the office and the principal reprimanded him.
c. David, a student with autism, was suspended for 20 consecutive days for breaking a
vase on the teacher’s desk.
d. Stacey, a student in a special education resource room was sent to isolation timeout,
even though this procedure was specifically prohibited in her IEP.
Briefly describe three of the five titles of the ADA.
The Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education issues
policy statements to assist states and school district’s to understand their responsibilities
under the IDEA.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following settings is never the least restrictive environment for any special
education student?
a. Mainstream
b. Institutional settings
c. Homebound instruction
d. Self-contained setting
e. None of the above
The two primary computer-assisted research data systems are West’s Westlaw system
and Nexis-Lexis.
a. True
b. False
In addition to the federal standards that the local education agency must meet, the IDEA
includes a requirement concerning state educational agency standards. According to this
requirement, if state standards exceed the federal standards
a. the LEA must follow the federal standards.
b. the LEA may choose to follow either federal or state standard.
c. the LEA must follow the state standards.
d. None of the above.
An interim alternative educational setting (IAES) may be used for disciplinary purposes
in which of the following specific circumstances? (May be more than one answer)
a. Violation of any school rules by a student with disabilities.
b. Long-term disciplinary removals
c. When ordered by a school board.
d. When ordered by a hearing officer.
Procedural safeguards give parents the right to challenge (May be more than one
answer)
a. the special education placement of their child.
b. the teacher assigned to the child.
c. the special education and related services provided to their child.
d. the identification of their child as having an IDEA-eligible disability.
According to IDEA 2004 the federal timeframe to complete an evaluation after parental
consent has been received is:
a. 60 days
b. 120 days
c. 30 days
d. 7 days
The internet is particularly useful because
a. it is updated more frequently than law libraries and journals
b. information can be accessed very quickly
c. the full opinion of some courts is available within hours of announcement
d. Only a and b
e. All of the above
The infants and toddlers program within IDEA requires that the state educational
agency assume overall responsibility for the early intervention programs.
a. True
b. False
When determining LRE, can the IEP consider a student’s effects on the education of
other students? If so, how? If not, why not?
What is the purpose of the procedural protections of IDEA?
In what two sources are federal regulations published?
What is the statutory definition of least restrictive environment? Explain the two major
parts of this definition.
Briefly explain the decisions in Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens v.
Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of Education and their importance to students with
disabilities.
Briefly trace the history of federal involvement in the education of students with
disabilities.
What is peer-reviewed research? How can peer-reviewed research used to help ensure a
FAPE is delivered to students in special education? Describe the decision in Ridley
School District v. M.R. (2012)
Describe the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Davis v. Monroe County Board of
Education (1999), which was later adopted by a federal district court in Werth v. Public
Schools of City of Milwaukee (2007).
What is the basic or primary source of law in the United States?
How do the requirements of Section 504 apply to extracurricular activities?
Why is it important that a student’s parents be included in their child’s IEP planning
process. What are the IDEA’s requirements regarding parental participation? How can
school district personnel ensure that a student’s parents are meaningfully involved in the
IEP process.
Describe the major goals of the disciplinary changes in the reauthorization of the IDEA
in 1997.
What are “major life activities” as defined by Section 504?
Describe two of the following cases. Indicate in which circuits the cases are controlling
authority. Cases: Daniel R.R. v. El Paso (1989), Sacramento City Unified School
District v. Rachel H. (1994), Roncker v. Walter (1983), Hartmann v. Loudoun County
Board of Education (1997).
Name the five essential components of effective reading instruction included in
Reading First.