20 U.S.C. § 1417 — Administration

(a) The Secretary^* must (1) cooperate with States and provide needed technical assistance, directly or through grants or contracts, about (A) educating children with disabilities and (B) carrying out this subchapter, and (2) provide short-term training programs and institutes.
(b) This chapter does not authorize a Federal officer or employee to mandate, direct, or control a State’s, local educational agency’s, or school’s specific instructional content, academic standards or assessments, curriculum, or instructional program.
(c) Under section 1232g, the Secretary must take appropriate action to protect personally identifiable data, information, and records collected or maintained by the Secretary, State^* educational agencies, and local educational agencies under this subchapter.
(d) The Secretary may hire qualified personnel needed for duties under subsection (a), section 1418, and part D of subchapter IV without applying title 5 competitive-service appointment rules or its classification and general-schedule pay rules. No more than 20 such people may be employed at one time.
(e) By the date the Secretary publishes final regulations implementing the 2004 amendments, the Secretary must widely publish and distribute to States, local educational agencies, and parent^* and community training and information centers: (1) a model IEP^* form; (2) a model individualized family service plan^* form; (3) a model procedural-safeguards notice under section 1415(d); and (4) a model prior-written-notice form under section 1415(b)(3) and (c)(1) that meets this subchapter’s requirements.