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Primary Focus: Desegregate schools
Outcome: The court ruled in favor and deemed it unconstitutional to segregate schools. -
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Primary Focus: Students in PA with intellectual and or developmental disabilities sued the state of PA because they were considered “uneducable
Outcome: The court ruled that the state could not deny an individual the right to equal access to education based on intellectual or developmental disability. -
Primary Focus: Seven families were suing the D.C. school district because their children were denied public education due to the cost of accommodations for their disability.
Outcome: The court ruled in favor of the families finding they were not given due process prior to being excluded from school. -
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Primary Focus: Five African American students were placed into a special education classroom just because they scored low on an intelligence test that was known to be racially biased and discriminatory.
Outcome: The court sided in favor of the students and was prohibited from using IQ tests to place students. -
Primary Focus: Armstrong, along with 4 other families are suing due to their handicapped child being denied free publicly funded education longer than the 180-day school year. They argued that during the summer gap huge regressions happened and wanted a longer school year.
Outcome: The court ruled in their favor and this led to bigger things like ESY summer programs for students. -
Primary Focus: The school refused a deaf student an interpreter because she was a great lip reader and did well in school.
Outcome: The court ruled in favor of the student. Even though she was a good student, she wasn’t excelling to her fullest potential without the proper interpreter for her disability. -
Primary Focus: A student with spina bifida needed a catheter installed during the school day and the school did not want to do it since it could have also been categorized as medical.
Outcome: The court sided with the student allowing this to happen in class with a related service provider. -
Primary Focus: A handicapped student was not performing to the best of his abilities at his local school so they placed him in a different school that better suited him and sought reimbursement.
Outcome: The court ruled in favor of the family to send their son to a school that best suited his needs for free. -
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Primary Focus: The school indefinitely suspended a student for being violent and disruptive. This disruption was due to the student's disability.
Outcome: The court sided with the student and then required the school to provide specialized services to that student when he came back to school. -
Primary Focus: A family sued their child's school district when they refused to place their child in a classroom with nonhandicapped students
Outcome: The court sided with the family and Danny needed to be placed in his least restrictive environment. -
Primary Focus: A child with Down syndrome was placed into a regular education classroom in the morning and a segregated classroom in another school district in the afternoon. The parents were not happy with this so they used the school district.
Outcome: The court sided with the family and shared they schools must go through every resource and supplemental service before thinking about sending a child to a different school district. -
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Primary Focus: Holland was denied access to full-day education in a general education classroom.
Outcome: The student was placed in a general education classroom with the proper support and services needed. -
Primary Focus: Inclusion in general education classrooms.
Outcome: The court sided that students with specialized education should be included in classrooms. -
Primary Focus: Garrett F was a student who needed specialized services during the school day. The school district declined to pay for this assistance which would not allow Garrett to attend school.
Outcome: The court sided with the family and forced the district to provide related services to the family for Garrett's health. -
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Primary Focus: Endrew was placed in a school where he was not thriving academically even with his IEP goals so his parents chose to move him to another private school and asked for reimbursement from his original school and they were denied.
Outcome: The court sided with the family and the school district was forced to pay out the family for the private school.