Section 504

District's Indifference to Bullying and Harassment of...

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The school district in Preston ex rel. A.P. v. Hilton Cent. Sch. Dist., 112 LRP 36253 (W.D.N.Y. 07/11/12), claimed that because...

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Section 504 requires that school districts consider a student's request to bring a service animal to school individually and,...

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In Castaic (Ca) Union Elementary Sch. Dist., 58 IDELR 234 (OCR IX, San Francisco (Ca) 2011), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...

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In Academy of Waterford (MI) 112 LRP 15747 (OCR 2011) the staff at Academy of Waterford, a public charter school in Michigan,...

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In Mowry v. Logan County Board of Education, 58 IDELR 192 (S.D. W. Va. 2012), a West Virginia high school student who was placed...

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Parents frequently ask which is better enforced: An IEP or a 504 Plan? While the 504 regulations do not specify the detail...

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Today, the US Department of Education published the Restraint and Seclusion: Resource Document to "help ensure that schools are...

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In Seminole County (FL) School District, 58 IDELR 113 (OCR 2011), the parents of a 5th grade student with cerebral palsy and a...

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The Office for Civil Rights found that a Tennessee school district violated Section 504 when it placed 14 middle schoolers with...

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In Ms. H v. Montgomery County Board of Education, 56 IDELR 268 (May 12,2011) a U.S. District Court in Alabama ruled that the...