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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Interactions with Selected Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
Publication Date: February 2008
Publisher(s): Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Series: RL32913
Topic: Education (Education financing, facilities, and equipment)
Type: Report
Coverage: United States United States
Abstract:
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) are two of the most significant federal statutes relating to education. Although both have the goal of improving education -- IDEA for children with disabilities and NCLB for all children -- the two statutes take different approaches. IDEA focuses on the individual child, with an emphasis on developing an individualized education program (IEP) and specific services for children with disabilities, while NCLB takes a more global view, with an emphasis on closing gaps in achievement test scores and raising the aggregate scores of all demographic groups of pupils to specific levels.