Legal considerations in providing special education services in parochial schools Based on their analyses of court cases and the 1997 IDEA amendments, these authors conclude that parochial school students with disabilities must be provided some level of services, although perhaps not the same level as their public school peers, and that school districts have some discretion in where and how these services are provided

Who are we assessing? Determining state-wide participation rates for students with disabilities Approximately 66% of students with disabilities were assessed in Hawaii’s norm-referenced statewide assessment; while these numbers were fairly easy to obtain using assessment and demographic databases, it was still difficult to identify the characteristics of those students not included in the assessment