{"id":14287,"date":"2012-03-28T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T23:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap4kids.org\/columbus\/2012\/03\/28\/791089360\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:03:21","slug":"department-of-education-osep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/department-of-education-osep\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that guarantees free public education to eligible youth with disabilities (ages 0-21) in the United States. The Department of Education OSEP office oversees how states implement IDEA services and provides technical assistance to families. Visit the websites for information on special education laws, a glossary of IDEA-related acronyms, national resource directories, and advocacy updates.<br \/>\nIDEA website: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.ed.gov\/idea\/parents-families\/\">sites.ed.gov\/idea\/parents-families<\/a><br \/>\nOSEP website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/ed-offices\/osers\/osep\">ed.gov\/about\/ed-offices\/osers\/osep<\/a><br \/>\nOSEP Contacts by State: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/ed-offices\/osers\/osep\/MSIP-State-Leads#Ohio\">ed.gov\/about\/ed-offices\/osers\/osep\/MSIP-State-Leads#Ohio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that guarantees free public education to eligible youth with disabilities (ages 0-21) in the United States. The Department of Education OSEP office oversees how states implement IDEA services and provides technical assistance to families. Visit the websites for information on special education laws, a glossary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-needs","category-education-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44007,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/44007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}