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Website. www.ideapublicschools.org. IDEA Public Schools, Inc (Individuals Dedicated to Excellence and Achievement Public Schools) is a not‐for‐profit charter school operator based in Weslaco, Texas. [1] It was formed in June 2000. [2][3][4] In 2015 it served about 19,000 students in 36 schools, about 85% of whom were economically disadvantaged.
e. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. IDEA was previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) from 1975 to 1990.
IDEA Public Schools operates 143 charter schools across four states, including three campuses in Fort Worth and one in Haltom City. The Weslaco-based charter network came under TEA investigation ...
Contents. Free Appropriate Public Education. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) is an educational entitlement of all students in the United States who are identified as having a disability, guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 [ 1 ][ 2 ] and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
IDEA's petition to intervene was not motivated by its schools' ratings. In fact, while IDEA projects that 63% of its schools earned an A or B this past year, that's a smaller percentage than the ...
Sep. 3—IDEA — Public Schools, a network of tuition-free K-12 public charter schools, plans to open another campus at 3410 W. Fifth St. in Odessa. A groundbreaking is tentatively scheduled for ...
Because the law does not clearly state to what degree the least restrictive environment is, courts have had to interpret the LRE principle. In a landmark case interpreting IDEA's predecessor statute (EHA), Daniel R.R. v. State Board of Education (1989), it was determined that students with disabilities have a right to be included in both academic and extracurricular programs of general education.
Jun. 20—IDEA — Public Schools announced Thursday it has been recognized by the Educational Results Partnership (ERP), a non-profit organization that applies data science to accelerate student ...