Number: 98-636
Title: INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT: PROPOSED AMENDMENT REGARDING INTERIM ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENTS
Authors: Nancy Lee Jones, American Law Division 
Abstract: An amendment to the interim alternative educational placement provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) has been proposed by Representative Livingston, added to the Department of Education appropriations bill, H.R. 4274, 105th Cong., 2d Sess., and reported out of the House Appropriations Committee on July 20, 1998. The amendment would change the current law by allowing the use of an interim alternative educational placement for the same amount of time that a child without a disability would be subject to discipline, eliminating the current limitation of 45 days. In addition, the amendment would add a new subsection allowing schools to place a child with a disability in an interim alternative educational placement if the child intentionally exhibits violent behavior that has resulted or could have resulted in physical injury to the child or others while at school or a school function.
Pages: 4
Date: Updated August 13, 1998