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Federal Legislative Priorities for 2007 |
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- Improve early identification and early intervention programs to screen and identify young children at-risk for learning and reading difficulties and increase opportunities for all children to achieve academic success.
- Preserve school accountability for students with LD in No Child Left Behind.
- Promote a response to intervention model to identify and serve students at risk for LD.
- Provide information to parents on their rights and responsibilities under federal law so they can become effective advocates and help improve academic outcomes for their child.
- Increase federal research that develops valid, reliable methods to improve research-based classroom instruction, interventions and assessments to serve students with LD.
- Require that all teachers be adequately prepared to provide effective, research-based instruction in all classrooms.
- Increase federal support for special education to ensure adequate resources are available to provide services, improve research and development, enhance professional development and improve diffusion of best practices.
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