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Questionable Stay-Put Decision from DDC

March 21, 2012 14:39

Last Friday, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion reflecting what I might call a non-obvious interpretation of the IDEA's stay-put provision.  The case is Johnson v. District of Columbia, --- F.Supp.2d ----, 2012...

Colker on the IDEA

February 28, 2012 01:42

Ruth Colker has uploaded to SSRN a copy of the first chapter of her forthcoming book, Disabled Education: A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.  The abstract:This manuscript is the first chapter of a forthcoming book to be published by New York University...

Bullying of Children With Disabilities - Part III

Jim Gerl
February 24, 2012 19:29

Image via Wikipedia Bullying remains the hottest of hot button issues in special education law.  In an earlier installment, I explained the early cases laying the conceptual groundwork for the proposition that failure to react to bullying can constitute a denial of FAPE under IDEA. ...

Several Flaws In Certified Class Warrant Reversal

Michael E. Rigney
February 17, 2012 18:10

JAMIE S. v. MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (February 3, 2012) The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act imposes on participating states a rather complicated and individualized scheme of substantive and procedural requirements in order to ensure that disabled students receive a free public...

Pasachoff on Special Education and Private Enforcement

October 20, 2011 13:54

Just out:  Eloise Pasachoff, Special Education, Poverty, and the Limits of Private Enforcement, 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1413 (2011).  The abstract:This Article examines the appropriate balance between public and private enforcement of statutes seeking to distribute resources or social...