Week 5 Special Education Law: Procedural Due Process Reflection

Week 5 Special Education Law: Procedural Due Process Reflection Essay
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Procedural Due Process
Procedural due process is the legal steps and requirements created to protect the rights of children, parents and school districts. The 14th amendment suggests that no state can deprive any person of their life, liberty or property without due process of law (Mueller & Carranza, 2011). Education is a right of every student and its deprivation entitles a student to due process. The rights during a due process hearing because of suspension and expulsion include: right to know what specific rules are violated, the right to have decision regarding the disciplinary action taken decided by a three-person panel and the right to provide evidence and witnesses.
The idea of essential fairness has been integrated into the education for all handicapped children act through the rights that the due process grants these children (Newcomer & Zirkel, 1999). Some of these rights include: right to have privacy of accounts by the parents, right to study all records and obtain a sovereign evaluation. They are also given the right to neutral hearing when differences arise regarding the educational strategies of a child and right for legal representation by counsel. All these pertain to the education of a child.
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