CCD RECOMMENDATIONS ON
IDEA REAUTHORIZATION CONFERENCE

 

Return to Legislative Updates	I. Discipline	II. Due Process
III. Monitoring & Enforcement	IV. IEP's	V. Definition
VI. Part C Early Intervention	VII. Related Services	VIII. Paperwork Reduction
IX. Child Medication	X. Research	XI. Funding

 

VIII. PAPERWORK REDUCTION

1. CCD supports the Senate paperwork provisions in Section 609 (b). We do, however, support limiting the paperwork reduction pilot programs to 10 states as provided in the House bill (Section 617 (e). CCD supports the House version of the GAO study of paperwork (Section 104).

Rationale: CCD supports efforts to lighten the burdens on special and general education professionals that keep them out of the classrooms or otherwise interfere with their ability to provide services to children under IDEA. Such efforts, however, must not undermine or erode the legal rights of those students and their families. What may appear to some as unnecessary paperwork may actually be essential rights and protections for special education students and their parents. The Senate paperwork provision does not compromise the rights of special education students. The House GAO study of paperwork provides more time for GAO to complete a study which will likely yield better study results.

 

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