Special Education Law Annual Review 2020

DAVID F. BATEMAN is professor in the department of educational leadership and special education at Shippensburg University, where he teaches courses on special education law, assessment, and facilitating inclusion. Dr. Bateman recently coauthored A Principal's Guide to Special Education, A Teacher's Guide to Special Education, Special Education Law Case Studies, Special Education Leadership: Building Effective Programming in Schools, and Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education.

MITCHELL L. YELL is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education and professor of special education at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Yell has published 134 journal articles, 6 textbooks, and 38 book chapters and has conducted numerous workshops on various aspects of special education law, classroom management, and progress monitoring. In 2020, he was named Researcher of the Year by the Council for Exceptional Children.

KEVIN P. BRADY is professor and program coordinator of the graduate program in educational leadership at the University of Arkansas. He is also adjunct associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches a course in school law and ethics in the Summer Principals Academy (SPA). He is currently the program director of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) Center for the Study of Leadership and the Law. Dr. Brady is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association (ELA) and is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals, including the Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal, Education and Urban Society, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and West's Education Law Reporter. Dr. Brady recently coauthored the book Legal Issues in Special Education: Principals, Policies, and Practices.