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Understanding Special Education

Useful, User-Friendly Web Resources

1. A New Era: Revitalizing Special Education for Children and Their Families, 89 pages (PDF). This is the report of President Bush's Commission on Excellence in Special Education, and is likely to serve as a blueprint for the administration's recommendations during the upcoming reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The first nine pages provide a summary of findings and an executive summary of the Commission's recommendations.

2. IDEA 2004

3. The Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP) publishes lots of information on special education spending. State Special Education Finance Systems - Part I, 78 pages (PDF) presents findings from CSEF’s 1999-2000 survey of state special education funding systems. It discusses the types of funding systems used by states and describes each state’s funding formula in detail. The latest SEEP report, Total Expenditures for Students with Disabilities: Variation by Disability, 30 pages (PDF), examines how special education expenditures vary by student's disability category. The report, What Are We Spending on Procedural Safeguards in Special Education, 1999-2000, 53 pages (PDF), is also available.

4. The United States Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) website. The site provides links to special education research reports and plenty of information on the Bush Administration's current thinking about IDEA reauthorization.

5. Kansas State Regulations for Special Education, site contains the complete text in PDF format of the state special education regulations.

6. Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, housed on the web site of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. Here you can find the law as well as additional information on requirements and frequently asked questions.