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IDEA · 20 U.S.C. § 1400

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The IDEA Circuit

You already know something is breaking. The IEP goals that don't connect to evaluation data. The teacher who was never trained to write specially designed instruction. The parent who left the meeting feeling unheard. These aren't isolated problems — they're nodes failing in the same circuit. The Lab exists to fix the system, not just the document.

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