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This library contains CADRE resources as well as State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources. Please note that CADRE makes no endorsement of the State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources included here, nor of any policies, procedures, processes, or documents specific to any item.

About the Webinar: This webinar will focus on the IDEA due process procedures with attention to the complexities and inefficiencies inherent in the current system. The webinar will explore the following: How due process can be overly legalistic creating barriers for parents, especially those from marginalized communities How inequities in the system lead to disparities in the quality of outcomes How delays in hearings result in significant setbacks in the delivery of critical services How high costs and bureaucracy drain already depleted resources Recommendations will be offered for the next...

AFC - Guide to Impartial Hearings

AZ - Due Process Procedures

BIE - Resolution Session and Due Process Hearing Procedures in Special Education - Due Process Hearing Officer Manual (2007)

Breaking Barriers: Reaching the Hard to Reach - Webinar

CT - School Family Community Partnerships_PolicyGuidance_PositionStatement

DREDF - A Guide for California Parents: Special Education Due Process and the Resolution Meeting

This document is a sample of a Due Process Hearing Extension Order. It serves as a tool that states may choose to use to document extensions, length of extensions, and new dates for a hearing and decision that meets the timelines required by IDEA.

ECAC - Race and Ethnic Background in Special Education

In partnership with Learning for Equity: A Network for Solutions (LENS-NC), ECAC spoke with families and educators from across the state to discuss the impact of race and ethnic background on students with learning disabilities. This 15 minute video explores: conversations about equity in special education with family members and educators across the state systems-level data displaying disproportionate representation among students of color the challenges of defining "normal" or "appropriate" in a complex and diverse society

FL - A Parent's Guide to Understanding Due Process Hearings for Early Steps

IA - Timelines involving Due Process Complaint

ID - Vendor Service Agreement - Lead Hearing Officer

IN - Hearing Officer Manual

Video of Webinar: Introducing the Part C Dispute Resolution Family Guides About the Webinar: This webinar provides parent centers and families with ideas on how to use these new, family-friendly guides on mediation, due process hearings, and written State complaints designed with the Part C families in mind. This webinar also describes the collaborative process that CADRE used to develop the guides. The new family-friendly guides on special education dispute resolution are now available for download from the CADRE website, in addition to the new Quick Guide to Special Education Dispute...

MA - So You Will Be Going To A Special Education Hearing Without A Lawyer

MEPF-9 - Parents Right Card

On August 14, 2013 CADRE hosted a free webinar with Karen Mapp, Director, Education Policy and Management Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Moving Forward: Building Effective Family-School Partnerships . Video of CADRE Webinar:Moving Forward-Building Family School Partnerships8.14.13 About the Webinar: This webinar provided an overview of what we now know about policies and practices needed to cultivate and sustain effective family-school partnerships that support student achievement and school improvement. About the Presenter: Karen L. Mapp, EdD, is a Senior Lecturer on...

MPACT - Due Process Timelines

NC - Hearing Timelines Under IDEA 2004

NCDB - Parent Advisory Councils and Cultural Ambassadors (Webinar)

NH - Hearing Officer's Guide to Administrative Process

NH - Memo Regarding Special Education Impartial Due Process Hearings; Users' Guide & Scheduling of Proceedings

NH - Pro-Se Parent Guide Due Process Hearings - PowerPoint

OK - Due Process Guidelines for Parents and School Administrators

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