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| Introduction: How This Book Is Organized | |
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| How to read this document | |
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| General | |
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| Section 300: Definitions Used in the Act | |
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| Assistive Technology Device | |
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| Assistive Technology Service | |
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| Charter School | |
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| Child with a Disability | |
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| Consent | |
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| Core Academic Subjects | |
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| Elementary School | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Free Appropriate Public Education | |
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| Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers (HQT) | |
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| Homeless Children | |
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| Limited English Proficient | |
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| Ward of the State | |
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| Individualized Education Program (IEP); IEP Team; Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) | |
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| Infant or Toddler with a Disability | |
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| Native Language | |
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| Parent | |
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| Qualified Personnel | |
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| Related Services | |
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| Scientifically Based Research | |
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| Secondary School | |
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| Services Plan | |
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| Secretary | |
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| Special Education | |
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| Supplementary Aids and Services | |
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| Transition Services | |
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| Universal Design | |
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| State Eligibility | |
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| FAPE Requirements | |
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| Free Appropriate Public Education | |
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| Exceptions to FAPE for Certain Ages | |
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| Other FAPE Requirements | |
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| FAPE-Methods and Payments | |
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| Residential Placement | |
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| Assistive Technology | |
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| Extended School Year Services | |
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| Nonacademic Services | |
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| Physical Education | |
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| Full Educational Opportunity Goal (FEOG) | |
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| Program Options | |
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| Child Find | |
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| Routine Checking of Hearing Aids and External Components of Surgically Implanted Medical Devices | |
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| Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) | |
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| LRE Requirements | |
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| Continuum of Placements | |
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| Placements | |
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| Nonacademic Settings | |
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| Children in Public or Private Institutions | |
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| Technical Assistance and Training Activities | |
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| Monitoring Activities | |
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| Additional Eligibility Requirements | |
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| Procedural Safeguards; Evaluation; Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information | |
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| Transition of Children from Part C to Preschool Programs | |
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| Children with Disabilities Enrolled by Parents in Private Schools | |
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| Definition of Parentally Placed Private School Children with Disabilities | |
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| Child Find for Parentally Placed Private School Children with Disabilities | |
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| Provision of Services for Parentally Placed Private School Children with Disabilities-Basic Requirement | |
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| Expenditures | |
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| Consultation | |
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| Written Affirmation | |
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| Compliance | |
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| Equitable Services Determined | |
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| Equitable Services Provided | |
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| Location of Services; Transportation | |
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| Due Process Complaints and State Complaints | |
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| Requirement that funds Not Benefit a Private School | |
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| Use of Personnel | |
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| Separate Classes Prohibited | |
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| Children with Disabilities in Private Schools Placed or Referred by Public Agencies | |
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| Applicability of Secs. 300.146-300.147. Responsibility of SEA; Implementation of SEA | |
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| Children with Disabilities Enrolled by Their Parents in Private Schools When FAPE is at Issue | |
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| Placement of Children by Parents if FAPE is at Issue | |
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| SEA Responsibility for General Supervision and Implementation of Procedural Safeguards | |
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| SEA Responsibility for General Supervision | |
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| SEA Implementation of Procedural Safeguards | |
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| State Complaint Procedures | |
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| Adoption of State Complaint Procedures | |
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| Minimum State Complaint Procedures | |
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| Filing a Complaint | |
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| Methods of Ensuring Services | |
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| Methods of Ensuring Services | |
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| Additional State Eligibility Requirements | |
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| Comprehensive Systems of Personnel Development | |
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| Personnel Qualifications | |
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| Performance Goals and Indicators | |
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| Participation in Assessments [Statutory Sec. 612(a)(16)] | |
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| Public Participation | |
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| State Advisory Panel | |
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| Membership | |
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| Other Provisions Required for State Eligibility | |
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| Suspension and Expulsion Rates | |
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| Access to Instructional Materials | |
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| Overidentification and Disproportionality | |
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| Prohibition on Mandatory Medication | |
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| By-Pass for Children in Private Schools | |
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| Show Cause Hearing; Decision; Continuation of a By-Pass | |
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| State Administration | |
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| State Administration | |
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| Local Educational Agency Eligibility | |
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| Use of Amounts | |
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| Maintenance of Effort; Exception to Maintenance of Effort | |
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| Adjustment to Local Fiscal Effort in Certain Fiscal Years | |
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| Schoolwide Programs Under Title I of the ESEA | |
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| Personnel Development | |
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| Permissive Use of Funds | |
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| Treatment of Charter Schools and Their Students | |
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| Purchase of Instructional Materials | |
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| Records Regarding Migratory Children with Disabilities | |
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| Coordinated Services System | |
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| Early Intervening Services (EIS) | |
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| School-Based Improvement Plan | |
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| Direct Services by the SEA | |
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| Disciplinary Information | |
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| SEA Flexibility | |
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| Evaluations, Eligibility Determinations, Individualized Education Programs, and Educational Placements | |
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| Parental Consent | |
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| Evaluations and Reevaluations | |
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| Initial Evaluations | |
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| Screening for Instructional Purposes is Not Evaluation | |
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| Reevaluations | |
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| Evaluation Procedures | |
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| Additional Requirements for Evaluations and Reevaluations | |
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| Determination of Eligibility | |
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| Additional Procedures for Identifying Children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) | |
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| Specific Learning Disabilities | |
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| Additional Group Members | |
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| Determining the Existence of a Specific Learning Disability | |
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| Observation | |
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| Specific Documentation for the Eligibility Determination | |
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| Individualized Education Programs (IEP) | |
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| Definition of Individualized Education Program | |
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| IEP Team | |
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| Parent Participation | |
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| When IEPs Must be in Effect | |
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| Development, Review and Revision of IEP | |
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| Private School Placements by Public Agencies | |
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| Educational Placements | |
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| Alternative Means of Meeting Participation | |
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| Multi-Year IEP Demonstration | |
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| Procedural Safeguards | |
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| Opportunity to Examine Records; Parent Participation in Meetings | |
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| Independent Educational Evaluations | |
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| Prior Notice by the Public Agency; Consent of Notice | |
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| Procedural Safeguards Notice | |
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| Electronic Mail | |
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| Mediation | |
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| Filing a Due Process Complaint | |
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| Due Process Complaint | |
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| Model Forms | |
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| Resolution Process | |
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| Impartial Due Process Hearing | |
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| Hearing Rights | |
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| Hearing Decisions | |
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| Finality of Decision; Appeal; Impartial Review | |
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| Timelines and Convenience of Hearings and Reviews | |
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| Civil Action | |
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| Attorneys' Fees | |
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| Child's Status During Proceedings | |
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| Surrogate Parents | |
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| Transfer of Parental Rights at Age of Majority | |
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| Discipline Procedures | |
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| Authority of School Personnel | |
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| Determination of Setting | |
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| Appeal | |
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| Placement During Appeals | |
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| Protections for Children Not Determined Eligible for Special Education and Related Services | |
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| Referral to and Action by Law Enforcement and Judicial Authorities | |
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| Change of Placement Because of Disciplinary Removals | |
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| State Enforcement Mechanisms | |
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| Monitoring, Enforcement, Confidentiality, and Program Information | |
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| State Monitoring and Enforcement | |
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| State Performance Plans | |
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| State Use of Targets and Reporting; Secretary's Review and Determination Regarding State Performance | |
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| Enforcement; Withholding Funds; State Enforcement | |
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| Confidentiality of Information | |
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| Consent | |
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| Reports-Program Information | |
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| Annual Report of Children Served-Information Required; Disproportionality | |
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| Authorization, Allotment, Use of Funds, Authorization of Appropriations | |
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| Local Educational Agency High Cost Fund | |
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| Preschool Grants | |
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| Preschool Grants | |
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| Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities | |
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| Section 635: Requirements for Statewide System | |
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| Section 637: State Application and Assurances | |
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| Section 640(b): Obligations Related to & Methods of Ensuring Services | |
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| Section 641: State Interagency Coordinating Council | |
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| Section 643(e): Reservation for State Incentive Grants | |
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| National Activities to Improve Education of Children with Disabilities | |
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| State Personnel Development Grants | |
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| Personnel Preparation, Technical Assistance, Model Demonstration Projects, and Dissemination of Information | |
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| Section 644(c): Accountability for Students Held to Alternative Achievement Standards | |
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| Section 665: Interim Alternative Educational Settings, Behavioral Supports, and Systemic School Interventions | |
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| Supports to Improve Results for Children with Disabilities | |
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| Section 671: Parent Training and Information Centers | |
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| Section 674(e): National Instructional Materials Access Center | |
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| Title II: National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) | |
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| Index | |