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Special Ed & Full-Inclusion Policy

The purpose of this research is to examine the necessity for a full-inclusion policy in connection with special education. The plan of the research will be to set forth the policy goals and options under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which mandates provision of a least restrictive environment for special students, and then to discuss the legality of full inclusion versus mainstreaming or partial inclusion.

The limits of debate regarding IDEA are set forth by Britton with a view toward showing that public policies emanating from the law, perceived as advocacy for those whose physical, mental, or emotional disabilities demonstrate a need for special beneficial educational treatment, appear to be subject to interpretation of legal meaning or intent.

Perhaps in response to court activity and political activity on the part of advocacy groups, and after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1973, Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-124), recently changed to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Its intent was to guarantee a "publicsupported" education for every school-age child in the "least restrictive environment" regardless of the nature or degree of their disability. . . .

[C]ontroversy developed concerning the actual setting in which these children may be served; what should be the "least restrictive environment"'> Special-education schools for the severely handicapped and special day classes on regular school campuses for the mildly to moderately disabled became the vogue.

Some professional educators, allied with advocacy groups, the California Department of Education and the U.S. office of Special Education and Rehabilitation, have created the Regular Education Initiative which flowed from the idea in the mid-1970s that the majority of disabled children should be educated in the "mainstream," meaning the regular class. Today the em...

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