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IDEA Requirements: Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) & FAPE. The IDEA includes two fundamental requirements: that the child receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE). What does least restrictive environment mean? What is mainstreaming?

"Is IDEA Being Implemented as Congress Intended?" Read first-hand observations about Congressional Hearings held in Spring 2001. Why do parents have to go to Court to get the services their children need? Isn't the federal role in education to serve the children, not the system?

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