TY - JOUR AU1 - Zirkel, Perry A. AB - Special Education L aw An Updated Primer of Special Education Law Perry A. Zirkel, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., Lehigh University TEACHING Exceptional Children, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 261 –265. Copyright 2019 The Author(s). DOI: 10.1177/0040059919878671 essential prongs for eligibility: (a) meeting RE-1 (2017), the court refined the Teachers and parents often find special the criteria for one or more of the standard. The resulting applicable education law complex and confusing. As one identified classifications in the IDEA, standard is that the child’s individualized step for a basic foundation in special education such as specific learning disability, and education program (IEP) must be law, a previous TEACHING Exceptional (b) having a resulting need for special “reasonably calculated to enable a child to Children article (Zirkel, 2005) provided a education (e.g., IDEA, 2017, § 1401[3]). make progress appropriate in light of the snapshot of the “top five case concepts” based on Eligibility overlaps with but is separable child’s circumstances” (Endrew F. v. Douglas 10 decisions from the Supreme Court. Each of from child find. For example, the district County School District RE-1, 2017, p. 999). these decisions interpreted either (a) the may violate child find by not completing The italicized words TI - An Updated Primer of Special Education Law JF - Teaching Exceptional Children DO - 10.1177/0040059919878671 DA - 2020-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/an-updated-primer-of-special-education-law-d0U1u1TzhS SP - 261 EP - 265 VL - 52 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -