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Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
2004; federal law that makes available a free and appropriate public
education for all children
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ 1974; federal law that protects the privacy of student
education records
Every student Succeeds Act (ESSA) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
2015; federal law that advances equity by requiring that all students be
taught high academic standards; mandates statewide assessment t hat
measure progress
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 2002;
federal law that introduced accountability to public schools; Titles 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, and 6
Title I - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ improving academic education
achievement of the disadvantaged
,Title II - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ preparing, training, and recruiting
high quality teachers and principals
Title III - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ language instruction for limited
English proficient and immigrant students
Title IV - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 21st century schools; federal
school grants for colleges and universities
Title V - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ promoting informed parental
choice and innovative programs
Title IV - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ flexibility and accountability;
prohibits discrimination
Race To The Top (RTTT) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 2009;
competition between 46 states and DC to implement college-ready
reform plans; standards were created in collaboration by the states
The Consent Decree - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 1970; addresses the
rights of ELL students; grounded in the 14th Amendment; requires
instruction to be delivered in a free and comprehensive manner
,Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
1973; requires school districts to provide a free appropriate education
(FAPE) to each qualified student with a disability
Americans with Disabilities Act - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 1990;
civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability;
provides similar protections as the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
developmental disability affecting verbal/nonverbal communication and
social interaction which tends to have an impact on educational
performance; classified as OHI
Deaf or hard-of-hearing - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ severe
impairment that impedes the processing of linguistic information
through hearing without amplification; may have adverse effects on a
student's educational performance
Developmentally delayed (DD) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ student
who is delayed in one or more of the following areas:
Adaptive or self-help development
Cognitive development
Communication development
Social/emotional development
Physical/motor development
, Dual-sensory impaired (DSI) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
simultaneous hearing and visual impairment that causes severe
communication, acquisition of communication, acquisition of
information, and functionality within the environment deficits
Emotion or behavioral disabilities (EBD) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
one or more of the following characteristics over a period of time to the
extent that it adversely affects educational performance
Unexplained inability to learn
Inability to maintain interpersonal relationships
Inappropriate types of behaviors or feelings
Prevalent unhappiness or depression
Homebound or hospitalized (HH) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
restriction of activities over a period of time based upon medical
diagnosis or psychiatric condition; confines student to home or hospital
Intellectual disabilities (ind) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ significant
subaverage general intellectual functioning and deficits in adaptive
behavior manifested during birth through age 19
Other health impairment (OHI) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ having
limited strength, vitality or alertness during a heightened alertness to