Feb 20, 2020 | by Special Education Solutions
Among the issues that hearing officers find most challenging are how to apply the free, appropriate public education standard of Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District. RE-1, 137 S. Ct. 988 (2017), how to apply the standard in cases involving post-secondary...
Oct 23, 2019 | by Special Education Solutions
IDEA provides that in some circumstances a child with a disability who violates school rules can be placed in an interim alternative educational setting for a specified period of time. 20 U.S.C. § 1415(k)(1), (2)(G), (3)(B), (4)(A). The issue of when an interim...
Feb 4, 2019 | by Special Education Solutions
Compensatory education services as a remedy for violations of IDEA can present difficult issues for Impartial Hearing Officers. Just how does the trier of fact measure the educational loss and calculate the remedial services that will be needed to make up for it? A...
