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30 J.L. & Educ. 445 (2001)
IDEA, Positive Behavioral Supports, and School Safety

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IDEA, Positive Behavioral Supports, and
School Safety
H. RUTHERFORD TURNBULL, III*
BRENNAN L. WILCOX
ANN P. TURNBULL
WAYNE SAILOR
and
DONNA WICKHAM
In recent years, incidents of student violence have been at the center of
debates over education standards and school safety.' Congress has responded
* H. Rutherford Turnbull, II, Professor of Special Education and Courtesy Professor of Law, Co-
Director of the Beach Center on Families and Disability, University of Kansas: LL.M., Harvard University,
1969; LL.B., University of Maryland, 1964; B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1959. Brennan L. Wilcox,
Legal and Policy Analyst at the Beach Center on Families and Disability, University of Kansas: J.D.,
Washington University in St. Louis, 1998; M.S.W., Washington University in St. Louis, 1998; B.A.,
University of Kansas, 1993. Ann P. Turnbull, Professor of Special Education, Co-Director of the Beach
Center on Families and Disability, University of Kansas: Ed.D., University of Alabama, 1972; M.Ed., Auburn
University, 1971; B.S.Ed., University of Georgia, 1968. Wayne Sailor, Professor of Special Education,
Director of University Affiliated Program (Lawrence, KS), University of Kansas: Ph.D, University of Kansas,
1969; M.A., University of Kansas, 1967; B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1963. Donna Wickham,
Senior Coordinator of Special Education Services for the Interdisciplinary Evaluation Team with the Child
Development Unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center: Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1993; M.Ed.,
University of Missouri, 1985; B.S., University of Missouri, 1984.
1. See Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-382 (codified as
amended in scattered sections of 20 U.S.C.); HARVARD UNIVERSITY, REPORT BY THE ADVANCEMENT PROJECT AND
THE CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT, OPPORTUNrrIES SUSPENDED: THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF ZERO TOLERANCE
AND SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES (2000); David E. Egnor, IDEA Reauthorization and the Issue of Student
Discipline (2000) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas). See generally U.S. Dept. of
Education, Keeping Schools and Communities Safe, Retrieved October 30, 2000 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/safeschools.html; Joe Davidson, Don't Kick Troubled Kids Out of
School, MSNBC.CoM, Retrieved Sept. 9, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://www.msnbc.com/news/
303654.asp; Ellen Goodman, 'Zero Tolerance 'Slights Children, BOSTON GLOBE, Jan. 2, 2000; Vincent Schiraldi,
Kids, Guns and Justice, MSNBC.CoM, Retrieved March 3, 2000 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/377050.asp; Joe Davidson, The Tragedy of Trying A Child As An Adult,
MSNBC.CoM, Retrieved June 1, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.msnbc.com/news/414697.asp.

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