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Category: Monthly Legal Update

Monthly Legal Update

January 2024 Legal Update

January 3, 2024January 3, 2024 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies recent court decisions that illustrate issues arising from (a) proficiency testing and (b) substantive FAPE, including the IDEA’s statute of limitations. Download the update and read more.

Tagged employee rights, Endrew F., IDEA statute of limitations, IEP Procedures
Monthly Legal Update

December 2023 Legal Update

December 1, 2023December 1, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies recent court decisions that illustrate issues arising from teacher advocacy and focusing on student FAPE, respectively. Download the update and read more.

Tagged ADA retaliation, compensatory education, COVID-19, employee rights, Endrew F., FAPE, First Amendment, IDEA statute of limitations, Section 504, tuition reimbursement, whistleblower
Monthly Legal Update

November 2023 Legal Update

November 1, 2023November 1, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies recent court decisions that illustrate the issues of eligibility, FAPE, and hearing officer remedial authority. Download the update and read more.

Tagged FAPE, IDEA eligibility, IEE, judicial deference
Monthly Legal Update

October 2023 Legal Update

October 3, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies a pair of recent court decisions that address behavior-modification issues. Download the update and read more.

Tagged autism, aversives, compensatory education, FAPE, FBA-BIP
Monthly Legal Update

September 2023 Legal Update

August 31, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies a pair of recent court decisions that illustrate differences in adjudication of IDEA eligibility and related issues. Download the update and read more.

Tagged child find, IDEA eligibility, Section 504
Monthly Legal Update

August 2023 Legal Update

July 31, 2023August 1, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies a pair of recent court decisions that illustrate varied IDEA issues arising from, but not at all exclusive to, safety concerns. Download the update and read more.

Tagged attorneys' fees, autism, bullying, compensatory education, FAPE, IDEA prevailing party, IEE
Monthly Legal Update

July 2023 Legal Update

July 6, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies a pair of recent court decisions that illustrate unusual issues that arise in school districts’ implementation of their IDEA obligations. Download the update and read more.

Tagged exhaustion, failure to implement (FTI), IDEA related services
Monthly Legal Update

June 2023 Legal Update

June 5, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies a pair of recent court decisions that illustrate the continuing diversity of judicial rulings with regard to the IDEA’s overlapping issues of child find and FAPE. Download the update and read more.

Tagged ABA method, child find, COVID-19, FAPE, IDEA least restrictive environment (LRE), RTI/MTSS
Monthly Legal Update

May 2023 Legal Update

May 2, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies a pair of recent court decisions that illustrate the increasing, although here inconclusive, use of § 504/ADA as an addition or alternative to the IDEA. Download the update and read more.

Tagged bullying, child find, dyslexia, mental health, RTI/MTSS, Section 504
Monthly Legal Update

April 2023 Legal Update

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 pzirkel

This month’s update identifies a pair of recent court decisions that illustrate differing adjudicative systems and approaches for FAPE and related issues. Download the update and read more.

Tagged child find, FAPE, IEP, judicial deference, Section 504

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