Understanding Special Education Law
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About
This Course
Special Education Law is governed by both federal and state statutes and is meant to ensure that all children with disabilities have access to a free appropriate public education that meets their unique needs and adequately prepares them for future education, employment, and living. This course will discuss some of the issues that lawyers working in Special Education Law are typically confronted with and examine the interplay of a variety of legal codes and administrative procedures. Pete Wright will introduce the course material by outlining a series of acronyms, definitions, cases, and statutes that are relevant to Special Education Law. The material will go into greater depth in topics such as eligibility for special education programs, factors relevant to selecting the correct program, and the procedures that must be followed by parents and attorneys in Special Education cases.
About the Presenters
Pete Wright, Esq.
Wrightslaw
Practice Area: Education Law
Pete Wright and his wife, Pam Wright, built Wrightslaw.com, the #1 ranked site about special educatIon law and advocacy and have written more than a dozen books about special education law and advocacy topics. Averaging 15 programs a year for more than 20 years, Pete has provided comprehensive, six-hour training programs about special education law and advocacy nationwide.As Adjunct Faculty at the William & Mary Law School, for three semesters Pete and Pam Wright taught a three-credit hour class about Special Education Law and helped to create the Special Education Law Clinic (PELE Clinic). For ten years, they taught at the week-long Institute of Special Education ...
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