Abstract

National policies, federal laws, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004, and federal regulations have played an important role in the improvement of special education in the United States. Especially, IDEA (2004) has been crucial to achieving the federal government’s national disability policies. However, political decision making is not easy and when a law or its provisions were intended to meet a goal, they may create a trade-off with another goal. This trade-off may cause conflict or harm for the people who are intended to get benefit from the policy. Therefore, it is important to consider possible trades-off when making a policy decision. This study first described the goals that individual government policies were designed to meet through IDEA. Then, emphasized the specific role of the procedural safeguards provisions of IDEA in meeting government’s intended policy goals. Finally, this study discussed how procedural safeguards provisions of IDEA create trades-off between intended policy goals and other policy goals.

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