Special Education: Clearer Guidance Would Enhance Implementation of Federal Disciplinary Provisions

May 2003 General Accounting Office Report Special Education: Clearer Guidance Would Enhance Implementation of Federal Disciplinary Provisions In the districts and schools in the three states GAO studied, disciplined special education students were primarily placed in in-school suspension rooms or out-of-school suspensions at home, according to survey respondents. These short-term settings were used most frequently because most of the special education students in these schools and districts were removed from their regular educational settings for periods of 10 days or less, according to respondents. Special education students who were removed for longer than 10 days were . . .