Jun 10, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
B.B. v. Delaware College Preparatory Academy, No. 19-1649, 2020 WL 63924976 IDELR 1 (3d Cir. Feb. 11, 2020), a nonprecedential decision, may be of interest to impartial hearing officers in making determinations about which claims are timely and which are barred by...
Jun 9, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
Price v. Commonwealth Charter Academy – Cyber, No. 19-1590, 2020 WL 1435175, (E.D. Pa. Mar. 24, 2020), is a somewhat unusual case for this blog in that it is not the review of an impartial hearing officer decision, but rather a decision to dismiss a lawsuit...
Jun 9, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
Preciado v. Board of Education of Clovis Municipal Schools, No. 19-cv-0184 SMV/KRS, 2020 WL 1170635, — F. Supp. 3d —-, 76 IDELR 67 (D.N.M. Mar. 11, 2020), covers a wide range of issues that impartial hearing officers confront in deciding special education...
Jun 9, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides that impartial hearing officer decisions are to be made on “substantive grounds based on a determination of whether the child received a free[,] appropriate public education.” 20 U.S.C. § 1415(f)(3)(E). A...
Jun 9, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
The Second Circuit has finally weighed in on the litigation over whether parents whose children who suffered from brain injuries were placed by the New York City Department of Education in iHope, a private academy, may move their children to a similar new school,...
Jun 9, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
R.S. v. Highland Park Independent School District, No. 19-10458, 2020 WL 914703, ___ F.3d ___, 120 LRP 7549 (5th Cir. Feb. 25, 2020), presents the issue of accrual of claims for purposes of the statute of limitations for due process hearing requests. It also contains...
