Special education disputes: report.

Existing law establishes the right of individuals with exceptional needs to a free appropriate public education and ensures the right to special education and related services. Existing law requires that a pupil with exceptional needs be accommodated through the creation and implementation of an individualized education program. Existing law establishes procedural safeguards under state and federal law to be established and maintained by agencies that provide education and related services to children who are individuals with exceptional needs, including procedural requirements for parties to special education disputes. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with specified other entities, to prepare a report identifying options for reducing administrative and legal costs borne by local educational agencies and parents resulting from disputes and litigation over the adequacy and administration of individualized education programs. This bill would require the Superintendent to submit an interim report to the Legislature by July 1, 2011, and a final report to the Legislature by December 1, 2011. The provisions of this bill would be repealed on December 1, 2015.