Draft Plans To Reauthorize Spec.-Ed. Law on Same Course

By Lynn Schnaiberg



Washington

A draft Senate proposal for reauthorizing the primary federal special-education law indicates that how to divide federal aid among states and school districts may become a contentious issue when lawmakers retool the law next year.

The draft revision of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, released by a Senate subcommittee last week, includes no proposals related to disciplinary policy, which is likely to be the most sharply contested issue of all. But Senate aides said they were debating language that could affect more students than a draft House plan in granting school officials more authority to remove dangerous or disruptive...

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