by Common Ground | Sep 27, 2024 | Courts, Current-Issue
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined arguments in a case (Pitta v. Medeiros) looking at whether parents have the right to video recordings of meetings with their child’s school district about special education services. The case involves the Massachusetts father of a...
by Common Ground | Sep 27, 2024 | Courts, Current-Issue
The New Jersey State Supreme Court has ruled that students with disabilities are entitled to a free public education even after they earn a General Education Development (GED). The case involves a teen with disabilities who was denied a request to re-enroll in a...
by Common Ground | Oct 6, 2015 | Courts
A New Jersey Administrative Law Judge has ordered the parents of a Morris County student with disabilities to consent to evaluation. The case involves a 6th grader classified as “Other Health Impaired.” At the time of the child’s classification in the 3rd grade, the...
by Common Ground | Oct 6, 2015 | Courts
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a case involving an interpretation of federal law addressing the “stay put” provision of IDEA. “Stay put” allows a student with disabilities to remain in his or her current special education placement...
by Common Ground | Nov 4, 2013 | Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider two appeals involving how schools treat students in special education. The first case involves a 5 year-old Colorado girl with multiple intellectual and developmental disabilities. The girl’s school used a special...
by Common Ground | Nov 4, 2013 | Courts
The board of education of a North Jersey school district has agreed to pay a student with severe disabilities $30,000 to settle allegations that it deliberately caused her to miss middle school graduation in 2012. The case involves an 8th grade girl who has severe...
by Common Ground | Jun 28, 2013 | Courts
A federal appeals court has ruled that a school district’s failure to include the parent of a student with disabilities in an individualized education plan (IEP) meeting in which the student’s placement was changed violated IDEA. The case involves an...
by Common Ground | Jun 28, 2013 | Courts
A federal appeals court has ruled that a school district’s use of a time-out room for an elementary school student with disabilities did not violate the student’s constitutional rights. The case involves an Oklahoma boy who was repeatedly placed in a...
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 | 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...
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