Needs to be plagiarism free! The Act provides for extra procedural safeguards and extra special educational services. The amendments of IDEA 1997 enhanced the opportunities of learners with disabilities to receive FAPE even when presenting dangerous and challenging behaviors.

Currently, societies, schools and school administrations are very concerned with the safety of schools. Their top priority is to provide a safe school environment where children can assemble and learn free of violence, drugs and other criminal activities. In keeping with this concern, IDEA includes provisions that specifically address the issue of the discipline of children with disabilities at school functions and in school settings. The Act addresses the extent to which disciplinary action may be taken by schools when a student with disabilities violates the code of student conduct.

IDEA contains detailed mandates that change the procedures of the normal due process when the learner to be disciplined falls under the category of or is classified as a student with disabilities. These special provisions were incorporated into the latest version of the Act after years of court cases that tried to balance the rights of learners with disabilities to a FAPE and against the needs of schools and school administrators to maintain discipline and order in their buildings. The current provisions of the Act strike that balance by allowing learners with disabilities to be disciplined just like students without disabilities but providing them with special protections to ensure they are not disciplined for actions arising from their disabilities.

Russo and Osborne (2008) explain these provisions, therefore, allow administrators of schools to subject students with disabilities to stern disciplinary actions just as they would to the non-disabled students if their actions are not stemming from their disabilities.&nbsp.