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You are totally uniformed about the IDEA. It requires the least restricted environment in which a child should learn, but allows for an INDIVIDUAL lesson plan. But the COMMON CORE requires that everyone know the exact thing at the same time, NO EXCEPTIONS as that dimwit Arnie Duncan has said multiple times and that the afterthought 1.5 page addendum in the Common Core Standards on special education makes clear.

What special education families need is for the IDEA to be ENFORCED. [/quote]

No, the IDEA mandates that special education students have access to the general education curriculum.

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The 1997 reauthorization of IDEA (IDEA ’97) attempted to address many of these problems, introducing important changes in the provision of educational services for students with disabilities. [b]One of the most significant changes was the new requirement that students with disabilities have access to the general curriculum – i.e., the same curriculum as that provided to students without disabilities[/b] (34 C.F.R. § 300.347(a)(1)(i)).

Expanding upon the earlier concepts of FAPE and LRE, the goal was to raise expectations for the educational performance of students with disabilities and to improve their educational results (U.S. Department of Education, 1995).

Four years later, Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), the purpose of which was to promote [b]equal opportunity for all[/b] children to receive a high-quality education and [b]attain proficiency, at a minimum, on challenging State achievement standards and State assessment[/b]s (20 U.S.C. § 6301). NCLB includes several requirements that have implications for the participation of students with disabilities in the general curriculum.

On December 3, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA ’04) (Pub. L. No. 108-446, 118 Stat. 2647 (2004) (amending 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq.). [b]IDEA ’04 maintains the emphasis of IDEA ’97 on the promotion of access to the general curriculum[/b], while at the same time introducing a number of changes, including various points of alignment with NCLB. IDEA ’04 also alters some of the language used in IDEA ’97. For example, throughout IDEA ’04, Congress replaced the words “general curriculum” used in IDEA ’97 with the phrase “[b]general education curriculum[/b],” emphasizing the educational component of the general curriculum. This paper uses the latter phrase found in IDEA ‘04, unless directly quoting IDEA ’97 or NCLB.[/quote]

http://aim.cast.org/learn/historyarchive/backgroundpapers/interrelationship_idea04_nclb#.VIMcmWTF9uE

Special education teachers and classroom teachers are being told that we may not instruct children on below grade level standards or use below grade level texts -- they must have access to the "general education curriculum" which means they must read the same texts as student who do not have learning disabilities.   We can read the texts aloud to them and have them answer orally, we may make adaptations in how they respond (drawing, speaking, etc instead of writing) but they have to be working on the same objectives as the rest of the class to prove that they are accessing the general education curriculum.
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It mandates ACCESS. It does not mandate mastery, unlike the Common Core, which does.

I've had a child in special education for 10 years. Common Core is what has made things impossible for him.  Previously, the IDEA paved the way for him to be in regular classrooms with a lesson plan at his learning level. It's the Common Core that took that away. My son and all his counterparts are living this. [/quote]

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