National Council on Disability To Release Recommendations on Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization

7/3/2002

From: Mark S. Quigley of the National Council on Disability 202-272-2004

WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The National Council on Disability (NCD) will release a synthesis document titled Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization: Where Do We Really Stand? on July 5 at 10 a.m. at the NCD office, 1331 F Street, NW, Suite 850, Washington, DC.

Where Do We really Stand? provides an examination of public testimony, briefing remarks, and national research highlighted during the current congressional Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) reauthorization process. The data and information examined is drawn from hearings held by the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education, Committees and Subcommittees in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, along with publications from the National Academy of Science, the Harvard Civil Rights Law Project, and the General Accounting Office.

For more information, contact Mark S. Quigley at 202-272-2004.

------ NCD is an independent federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress on disability policy. In 1986, NCD first proposed and then drafted the original Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Currently, NCD is coordinating a multi-year study on the implementation and enforcement of ADA, IDEA, and other civil rights laws.