Education and school law cover the laws and regulations that govern federal and state education, including the administration and operation of educational institutions, school athletics, instruction methods, programs, and materials. This area of law encompasses issues relating to school faculty, staff, and students, including school discipline and discrimination based on race, color, national original, sex, or disability.
Special education law refers to the laws and regulations that govern the teaching of students with special needs. These needs may be learning or physical disabilities, behavioral problems, talents, or academic aptitude that cannot be satisfied in a regular classroom.
Glidden is a town in Carroll County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,253 at the 2000 census. The town is named in honor of Joseph Farwell Glidden (1813–1906) of DeKalb, Illinois, who invented barbed wire in 1873. Glidden is the birthplace of Merle Hay, one of the first three Americans killed in World War I.