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• Basics Program

Tuesday, July 9

8:15 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9-10:30 am Overview of the Special EducationPprocess (Mary Schwartz, Illinois Due Process Hearing Officer)

10:30 - 10:45 am Break

10:45 - Noon Basic Hearing Procedures - 1 (James Mortenson, ALJ, Minnesota)

Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch

1 - 2:30 pm Basic Hearing Procedures -2 (James Mortenson, ALJ, Minnesota)

2:30 - 2:45 pm Break

2:45 - 4:30 pm Basic Hearing Case Law (Mary Schwartz, Illinois Due Process Hearing Officer)

• Regular Program

Wednesday, July 10

8:15 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 am Disciplinary Hearings Under IDEA (Steve Elliot & Ian Spechler, Impartial Hearing Officers, Texas)

10:00 - 10:15 am Break

10:15 - Noon Writing Better Hearing Decisions (Teresa L. Bullock, SRO, Ohio)

Noon - 1;30 pm unch and Welcome

1:30 - 3:00 pm [To be announced]

3:00 - 3:15 pm Break

3:15 - 4:30 pm Sanctioning Authority of IDEA Hearing Officers (Jessica Varn, ALJ, Florida)

Thursday, July 11

8:15 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:15 - 10:15 am What Directions Are Impartial Hearing Officers Taking?, Perry L. Zirkel, Professor Emeritus of Special Education and Law, Lehigh University)

10:15 - 10:30 am Break

10:30 - Noon Panel Discussion - Improving Impartial Hearings (panel to be announced)

12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm Recent Caselaw Developments (Prof. Mark C. Weber, DePaul University College of Law)

3:00 - 3:15 pm Break

3:15 - 4:30 pm Recent Caselaw Developments (Prof. Mark C. Weber, DePaul University College of Law)

Friday, July 12

9:00 - 10:15 am Ethics (Deusdedi Merced, Special Education Solutions)

10:15 -10:30 am Break

10:30 - Noon Ethics (Deusdedi Merced, Special Education Solutions)

18th National IDEA Academy

July 9 -12, 2019

THotel accommodations: The Saint Paul Hotel, 350 Market St., St. Paul, MN 55102

To make hotel reservations, you may:

(1) call 651-292-9292 and reference the "18th National IDEA Academy", or

(2) go online (www.saintpaulhotel.com), select the arrival and departure dates and enter 190708EDLA as the group/block code.

Mitchell|Hamline School of Law

875 Summit Avenue

St. Paul, MN 55105

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P.O. Box 9681, Seattle, WA 98109-0681
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