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Michelle K. Floyd – ProQuest LLC, 2024
School leadership has progressed from a principal-led position to a dual-leader position with assistant principals. Assistant principals have stepped into instructional leadership roles and have been identified as overseeing special education (Best, 2016; Gaston, 2005; Walton, 2008). Despite studies determining that assistant principals are…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Assistant Principals, Elementary Education, Special Education
Blask, Fallon – Online Submission, 2011
Inclusion for students with disabilities into the general education classroom has grown exponentially over the last decade. With legislation, such as, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and The Individuals with Disabilities Educational Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004 schools are moving towards integrating their classrooms more than they ever have in the…
Descriptors: General Education, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
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Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Lechtenberger, DeAnn – Remedial and Special Education, 2010
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandates that students with disabilities be provided the necessary special education and related services that will allow them the benefit of a free and appropriate public education. Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) are the product of a team planning process that facilitates the coordination…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Student Participation, Academic Achievement, Disabilities
Green, Judith A. – Principal, 2008
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was reauthorized as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1990. When reauthorized in 2004 it maintained the IDEA acronym although it is now the Individuals with Disabilities Education "Improvement" Act. The federal government further demonstrated its emphasis on…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Educational Change
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Furney, Katharine Shepherd; Aiken, Judith; Hasazi, Susan; Clark/Keefe, Kelly – Journal of School Leadership, 2005
A policy implementation study was undertaken in 65 schools in order to explore practices and outcomes related to state policies requiring schools to establish comprehensive educational support systems and teams. The purpose of these systems and teams was to enhance the capacity of schools to support students with diverse needs in general education…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Educational Planning