Special Education Law
For Some Families There's No Place Like Home: The IDEA...
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All fifty states have laws allowing parents to home school their children. Under the IDEA special education includes specially...
10th Circuit Denies Private Residential Placement for Child...
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In Thompson R2-J School District v Luke P., a case out of Colorado, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district...
Services Plans for Parentally-placed Private School...
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Some students with disabilities attend private rather than public schools. There are three scenarios in which a student with...
From the Outside Looking In: Independent Educational...
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The parents’ right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of their child is an important IDEA procedural...
Parent Consent and Independent Educational Evaluation...
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A functional behavior assessment, or FBA, is a tool to gather information about a student’s inappropriate or problem behavior...
H. R. 4188 The IDEA Fairness Restoration Act: Allowing...
Ability Law Blog Post
In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy that parents who...
Using the State Education Agency Complaint Process to...
Ability Law Blog Post
In a recent series of articles I covered resolving disputes under the IDEA through mediation, the resolution process, and...
Special Education Services in the Summer: The IDEA and...
Ability Law Blog Post
Summer is rapidly approaching. For most children summer means time off from school. But for some students with disabilities...
We Can Work it Out Part III: Using the Resolution Process...
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As yet another way to resolve disputes before a due process hearing, the IDEA 2004 added a resolution process. Once a due...
We Can Work it Out: Using the IDEA 2004 to Resolve Disputes...
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My posts this week and next week will cover the IDEA 2004 formal procedures for resolving disputes prior to a due process hearing...