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The National Center on Dispute Resolution in Special Education

"Encouraging the use of mediation and other collaborative strategies to resolve disagreements about special
education and early intervention programs."


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This document does not offer formal policy guidance from the Office of Special Education Programs at the United States Department of Education.

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A Just Alternative or Just an Alternative? Mediation and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Commissioner Paul Steven Miller*

Certainly litigation in federal court is a critical component to implementing this vital civil rights statute, and mediation is not appropriate for every kind of disability employment rights case. However, mediation is not second-class justice either, and in many instances, with procedural safeguards to ensure fairness, mediation can provide better justice than a lawsuit.

A Just Alternative or Just an Alternative.pdf
A Just Alternative or Just an Alternative.pdf

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