Federal Laws and Related Documents

IDEA

Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act - (IDEA 2004) - Wrightslaw resources

IDEA 2004 - Private School Provisions- Council for American Private Education

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Data - This web site provides public access to the most recent data about children with disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). These data are collected annually by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs in accordance with Section 618 of IDEA.

The Legislative and Litigation History of Special Education - Edwin W. Martin, Reed Martin, Donna L. Terman - [I thought this was interesting.]

IDEA Parent Guide - National Center for Learning Disabilities

Building the Legacy: A Training Curriculum on IDEA 2004 - National Dissemination Center for Learning Disabilities


ADA - Section 504

Americans with Disabilities Act - U.S. Department of Justice

Section 504 - Wrightslaw resources

Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA )

FERPA - Wrightslaw resources

Guide to the Privacy of Student Information: A Resource for Schools - National Center for Education Statistics - "This guide was written to help school and local education agency staff to better understand and apply FERPA, a federal law that protects privacy interests of parents and students in student education records."


No Child Left Behind

No Child Left Behind (The "Title I" law) - Wrightslaw resources

New Hampshire Laws and Related Documents

NH Rules for the Education of Children with Disabilities

Users Guide to Administrative Due Process - The purpose of the guide is to assist participants to the Department’s administrative processes (i.e. Special Education Impartial Due Process Hearings; State Board and Vocational Rehabilitation Fair Hearings; mediation; neutral conferences; etc.).

New Hampshire Procedural Safeguards Manual - December 2008 version

Questions and Answers about the NH Rules for the Education of Children with Disabilities - Provided by the New Hampshire Department of Education at Technical Assistance sessions in 2008-2009.

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Useful Websites and Organizations

Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc.

Children's Defense Fund Action Council

Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)

Disability Rights Center - New Hampshire
18 Low Avenue
Concord, NH 03301-4971
Phone:603-228-0432 or 1-800-834-1721
TDD: 1-800-834-1721
Fax: 603-225-2077
E-mail: advocacy@drcnh.org

Family & Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE)

International Dyslexia Association

National Center for Law and Learning Disabilities

Parent Information Center - New Hampshire
P.O. Box 2405
Concord, NH 03302-2405
Phone: Voice / TDD: 603-224-7005
Toll Free: 800-947-7005 (NH only)
Fax: 603-224-4365
E-mail: picinfo@parentinformationcenter.org

U.S. Department of Education

U. S. Department of Education - Office of Civil Rights

U. S. Department of Education - Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Wrightslaw

Yellow Pages for New Hampshire Kids



Legal Research

Supreme Court Cases
United States Supreme Court - This official site contains Supreme Court decisions beginning with the 2000 term. It also contains useful information about the Court and its docket

Findlaw - Findlaw offers a searchable database of Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1893. You can browse this database by year and United States Reports volume number. It is searchable by citation, case name, and full text.

Legal Information Institute - The Cornell University Legal Information Institute offers opinions of the Court issued since May 1990. Although there are some date gaps in cases reported before May of 1990, many opinions that were reported before that time are also available.

GPO Access - The Government Printing Office offers this to the public as a finding aid to the official version of the United States Reports. The coverage of this site includes the years 1937-1975, vols. 300-422 of the official United States Reports. The site is searchable by full text, case name, and citation.

Lower Federal Court Cases
State Court Web Sites - Maintained by the National Center for State Courts.

State Court Cases
Links to Courts - Includes a circuit map - Maintained by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, this page includes links to appellate and district court home pages, most of which provide recent opinions.

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (LII 2003 ed.) - Peter W. Martin, Revised July 11, 2003

Federal Government Resources

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
The dissemination center is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). It serves as a central source of information on:

• IDEA, the nation's special education law,
  
• No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities),
  
• Research-based information on effective educational practices.

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)

Searchable Database of OSEP Letters of Clarification