IDEA

Special Education & Disabilities: What are the appropriate standards for determining whether an educational placement offers the least restrictive environment (“LRE”) for a student with a disability and whether a change in location constitutes a change of placement?

Special Education & Disabilities: Whether IDEA's FAPE requirement that a student's IEP must provide educational benefit as defined by Endrew F.  outweighs IDEA's preference for such benefit in the least restrictive environment.

Third Circuit order denying petition for rehearing en banc.

Special Education & Disabilities: Whether parents who succeed on claim for reimbursement for private school tuition under IDEA's stay put provision are a prevail party entitled to attorneys' fees

Fourth Circuit panel held that Maryland school district provided with a disabled student with a free appropriate public education as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act even though the student's individualized education plan did not address the students religious and cultural needs. 

NSBA and a coalition of more than 35 organizations joined today in advocating for the full funding of IDEA on behalf of over 6.2 million students with disabilities, their teachers, specialized instructional support personnel, parents, school boards and administrators. Read their letter to policymakers here:

NSBA joined 41 national education, healthcare, disability, and child welfare organizations in a letter urging members of Congress to support vital healthcare for students with disabilities and students in poverty, and vote "no" on The American Health Care Act.

Special Education & Disabilities: Whether 20 U.S.C. § 1415(l) requires Petitioners to exhaust the state administrative procedures set forth in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., before filing a civil action seeking monetary and declaratory relief under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12201 et seq., and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq.