One result appears certain. The changes are significant enough to raise many questions about the Acts interpretation. Interpretation requires both federal and state departments to issue new regulations and rules.
Interpretation also requires, ultimately, court decisions.
This, in turn, means work for lots of attorneys. In short, the Act provides lawyers with significant opportunities to maintain the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed. More importantly, however, there are substantive changes that will affect educational practice. The new legislation is not, however, the wholesale revision that some people and groups favored - and that other groups and persons feared. Some people had proposed, for example, doing away with the IDEA altogether and combining its provisions within a general, omnibus education statute.