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Classifying Students. Tracking systems discriminated aganist poor and minority students, thus denying them an equal educational opportunity.
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Class placement. African American students could not be placed in classes for children with mild mental retardation solely on the basis of intellectual assessments found to beculturally and racially biased.
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Right to treatment. Individuals with mental retardation residing in a state instution have a right to appropate treatment.
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Expulsion from school. Explusion of a student with disabilities for disciplinary reasons without due process was disallowed.
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Appropriate Education. Issue of appropriate education for a student with hearing impairments making satisfactory educational progress.
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Exclusion from school. Children with special needs whose behavior is a direct result of their disability cannot be expelled from school for misbehavior.
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Class placement. Preference for integrated placement viewed as secondary to the need for an appropate education. Court established two-prong test.
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Right to education. reaffirmation of the principle of zero-reject education. Entitlement to a free and appropriate publis education regardless of the severity of the childs disabilities.
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Least restrictive environment. Placement in a general education classroom with supplemantary aids and services must be offered to a student with disabilities prior to considering more segregated placements.
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Related Services. Expanded and clarified the concept of related services. Affirmed that intensive and continuous school health care services nessary for a student to attend school.
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Parental rights. Affirmed the right of parents to represent their children in IDEA- related cases.