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...
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...
