This month’s alert provides the following additions to your legal currency: Court decisions specific to response to intervention (RTI) continue to be limited in number, legal weight, and implementation guidance. A recent decision from Connecticut is a partial exception. My recent legal update specific to gifted students, published in the current issue of the Journal… Continue reading January 2017 Legal Update
Monthly Legal Updates
December 2016 Legal Update
As the latest additions to your legal currency, this month's alert provides the principal findings of an empirical analysis of the case law concerning the procedural dimension of FAPE, as reported in the following new journal article: Perry A. Zirkel & Allyse Hetrick, (2016). Which procedural parts of the IEP process are most judicially vulnerable? Exceptional Children, 83… Continue reading December 2016 Legal Update
MONTHLY LEGAL UPDATES
This site will periodically highlight major new legal developments, with a focus on student issues under the IDEA and Sec. 504/ADA. To receive these updates via email or WordPress reader, please scroll to the bottom of this page and enter your email address to subscribe. The format for each page of the update, from to… Continue reading MONTHLY LEGAL UPDATES
November 2016 Legal Update
November 2016 - As the latest additions to your legal currency, this month's alert identifies these two aspects of the IDEA’s central obligation of “free appropriate public education” (FAPE) that have emerged beyond the procedural and substantive dimensions of FAPE demarcated in Board of Education v. Rowley (1982). The first of these two relatively recent judicially recognized forms of… Continue reading November 2016 Legal Update
October 2016 Legal Update
This month's alert provides the following additions to your legal currency: A new Second Circuit decision holds that eligibility under the IDEA does not necessarily mean eligibility under Section 504 and its sister statute, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Supreme Court agrees to decide two special education cases, with one (Endrew F.) being centrally… Continue reading October 2016 Legal Update
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