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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]

IDEA mandated access to the curriculum.

The curriculum is based on the state standards.

The old standards did not require mastery?   So they said what?   "Students will, with help and support and manipulatives and drawings, be able to multiply 2 numbers".

And the Common Core standards require mastery, maybe "Students will know from memory the product of 2 numbers and state them quickly with no assistance"?

So a child with a learning disability who isn't able to memorize basic math facts was able to participate i the general ed classroom when the standards didn't require mastery, and he could sit there and draw an array to multiply, but wasn't required to work toward memorization.   He got by, pushed up and promoted... but never learned to multiply  automatically.

Now the standards are harder and require children to do things automatically.  If my child were learning disabled I'd rather have him pulled from class and actually TAUGHT how to master multiplication, rather than have him sit in the general education classroom and be passed on through use of aids and drawings, but never learn to do the work. 
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