Approaching the Millennium for Students with Disabilities: Implementing IDEA '97 and Its Accompanying Regulations

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  • Beverley H. Johns

Abstract

After a contentious wait of almost two years, the regulations to accompany IDEA 1997 (20 V.S.C. 1400 et seq.) were published in the Federal Register by the US Department of  Education on Friday, March 12, 1999. Two hundred sixtyseven pages ofsmall print (1124 double-spaced normal pages) included the actual regulations, discussion ofcomments, questions and answers, a regulatory summary of the costs and benefits of the regulations, and reasons for changes.

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