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Today, the US Department of Education published the Restraint and Se
Parents frequently ask which is better enforced: An IEP or a 504 Plan?
In Mowry v. Logan County Board of Education, 58 IDELR 192 (S.D. W. Va.
A pet peeve of mine is the common misperception that the manifestation determination review process is a "hearing." The IDEA requires that when a student with a disability has his/her educational placement changed for a disciplinary reason that a meeting be held to determine the relationship bet
In Academy of Waterford (MI) 112 LRP 15747 (OCR 2011) the staff at Academy of Waterford, a public charter school in Michigan, violated 504 when it told the parent of 10 year-year-old with diabetes that he must be accompanied by family members if he wished to participate in an afterschool
In Stamps ex. rel. H.S.,S.S, and J.S v Gwinnett County Sch Dist., 112 LRP 28567 (11th Cir.
In Castaic (Ca) Union Elementary Sch.
In a letter to Jeff Spitzer-Resnick, one of my Protection and Advocacy colleagues with Disability Rights Wisconsin, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)(Letter to Spitzer-Resnick 112 LRP 32664 (OSEP June 22, 2012), acknowledged that school districts must consider the least res
Section 504 requires that school districts consider a student's request to bring a service animal to school individually and, like most issues involving students with disabilities, the decision must be made by a group of persons and based upon information from a variety of sources.