Are there any overseas models for education standards?
Australia has a range of public and private education providers, a federal system in which State governments have a major role and complaint based human rights legislation in education and training. Useful models are most likely to come from the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom or New Zealand. Each of these countries have legislation dealing with disability discrimination in education, however, some legislation is more comprehensive. The legislation in the United States is the most extensive in its coverage and is also the oldest. None of these countries have adopted the approach proposed in Australia of standards made under legislative provision. However, the Codes of Practice under the UK legislation serve a similar function that, of assisting providers by identifying the kinds of changes they need to make for students with a disability. Generally, these countries use education legislation or individual education planning processes rather than human rights legislation to try to preven
