by Common Ground | Jun 28, 2013 | Courts
A New Jersey Administrative Law Judge has ruled that a school district is not required to provide extracurricular activities and transportation in order for a student to develop social skills. The case involves a 12-year-old boy with Down syndrome who was placed in a...
by Common Ground | Jun 28, 2013 | Courts
The New Jersey commissioner of education has issued a ruling that ensures that parents cannot be held liable for the cost of educating their child, even when that child lives in a group home and the parents move out of state. The case involves a child with multiple...
by Common Ground | Feb 28, 2013 | Courts
A federal appeals court has upheld a U.S. Department of Education regulation requiring school districts, under certain circumstances, to reimburse parents for independent educational evaluations (IEE). The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously to uphold a...
by Common Ground | Feb 28, 2013 | Courts
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Colorado school district must reimburse parents for the cost of an out-of-state residential treatment program. The case involves a high-school student, now an adult, with learning disabilities and severe behavioral and...
by Common Ground | Nov 12, 2012 | Courts
A federal court of appeals has ruled that a New Jersey school district is required to provide compensatory education to a student with disabilities, even though the student have moved out of state. Under Federal law, compensatory education is awarded to special...
by Common Ground | Nov 12, 2012 | Courts
A federal investigation into whether a large urban school district placed students with disabilities in segregated classrooms has pushed the district to commit to change the ways in which it makes placement decisions. The case involves the 9,500-student school...
by Common Ground | Sep 24, 2012 | Courts
Earlier this year, Newark public schools settled a decade-long, class action federal lawsuit brought by parents of children with disabilities. The case was filed in 2001 on behalf of six students with disabilities whose parents were seeking special education and...
by Common Ground | Apr 16, 2012 | Courts
After a protracted court battle, a New Jersey school district has agreed to reimburse parents for legal fees and the cost of tuition at a state-approved private school. The case involves a boy with autism, now 15, placed at a private school by his parents. Initially,...
by Common Ground | Apr 16, 2012 | Courts
“A New Jersey District Court ruled that a child’s claim to compensatory education was moot because the child subsequently moved from New Jersey to another state.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia will review a case that has potential to...
by Common Ground | Apr 14, 2012 | Courts
A federal judge has ruled that Washington, D.C. public schools must dramatically change the ways in which they identify and serve preschoolers with disabilities. A class action lawsuit was filed in 2005 by parents of seven young children with disabilities, claiming...
by Common Ground | Apr 11, 2012 | Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a California school district ordered to provide compensatory tutoring to a teen with learning disabilities. The case, Compton Unified School District v. Addison, involves a tenth-grade student who had failed...
by Common Ground | Sep 30, 2011 | Courts
Plaintiffs contend that the district’s “Automatic Autism Transfer Policy” violates state and federal law.A Pennsylvania judge will soon hear a class action case alleging that a school district is illegally moving children from one school to another based solely on...
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