IDEA reauthorization is dramatically changing special education practices for school districts across America. Now, a single monthly newsletter explains in plain English the specific actions you should take to comply with the law and take advantage of the new opportunities it presents -- IDEA Compliance Insider^®.

IDEA Compliance Insider^® gives you the easy-to-understand guidance you need for special education compliance. In upcoming issues, education law experts explain what's changed--and what hasn't--and give you clear, practical solutions you can use to maximize your use of IDEA funding and keep your district out of court. You get:

• Specific measures you can take to prepare your special education program for changes in each area affected by reauthorization
• Crucial help with the overhaul of the IDEA disciplinary rules
• How-to help implementing NCLB rules affecting special education
• Plain-English strategies for newly approved uses of IDEA funds
• Proven measures to avoid lawsuits over FAPE and LRE
• Advice on pressing personnel problems, including getting special education teachers "highly qualified"
• Legal guidance on the new IEP requirements
• Essential guidance on proper identification of students with disabilities
• And more

Practical tools to make compliance easy for you
IDEA Compliance Insider^® gives you the working tools you need to simplify the task of compliance. For example, you get model policies, staff memos, student disciplinary policies, codes of conduct, letters to parents, notices, warnings, record-keeping forms, contract clauses, agreements, consent forms, and more -- all to help you comply in the fastest, simplest way possible.

Avoid lawsuits and limit your exposure to liability
With the IDEA changes, you now have more flexibility to resolve disputes earlier, avoiding costly lawsuits. But your procedures and decisions must help you do this. IDEA Compliance Insider^® is the one resource you can use to help protect against time-consuming hearings, costly legal actions, government audits, and disastrous loss of funding. With so much on the line for your students and your schools, this is crucial help you should not be without.

IDEA Compliance Insider^® is your plain-English source for step-by-step strategies and policies you need to carry out existing IDEA rules and prepare for the new rules that will come with the final regulations.