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Brown v. Board of Education
** A Supreme Court ruling of racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.**
The "Separate but equal" doctrine was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. This ruling fueled the civil rights movement which led to the desegregation in schools. -
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Any children who had reached the age of 8, yet had not reached the mental age of 5 public schools were given authority by law to deny a free education.
As a result Pennsylvania was responsible for providing free public education to all children. Despite any disability, no child could be denied a public education. -
Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
Children were denied education if they had any disabilities due to the cost schools would have to pay to meet their different accommodations.
This resulted in a consent decree in which the state agreed to provide a free public education for children with mental retardation. -
Rowley v. Hendrick Hudson School District
A school refused to provide sign language interpreters for students who are deaf.
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Smith v. Robinson
Due to the U.S Supreme court is disagreeing to the fact that attorney's fees should be awarded under federal law in successful special education lawsuits.
Parents are reimbursed legal fees when they win a case resulting from special education litigation. -
Burlington School Committee v. Department of Education
_Under an unanimous ruling, if parents enrolled their child in a private school they wo unilaterally -
Honig v. Doe
District gets sued after school indefinitely suspended a student for violent and disruptive behavior's that was related to his disability.
Students whose misbehavior is related to their disability cannot be denied education. -
Timothy W v. Rochester, New Hampshire, School District
District sued after school decided a child was not educationally handicapped and therefore was not entitled to an education.
Public schools was not obligated to provide special education services for a severely handicapped child. -
Cater v. Florence County School District 4
Florence County School District argued since all the requirements for IDEA was not met by the private school was not in appropriate standard; they did not have to reimbursement to the parents was not required.
Parents have the right to withdraw their child from a public school providing an inappropriate education under the means of IDEA, and into a private school as long as the private school provides an appropriate education. -
Doe v. Withers
Teacher faces dollar damages case due to be sued for repeatedly refusing to implement a child's IEP.
_In consquence, the teacher had to pay damages awarding of $5,000.00 compensatory damages and $10,000.00 punitive damages to the family. -
Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District
District in Arizona gets sued due to the district refusing to provide a sign language interpreter for the child after he transferred. -
Cedar Rapids School District v. Garret F.
After school failing to providing a personal attendant during the school day to help oversee a child's health care needs. As well as refusing to provide nursing services to the child after their parents provided a personal one from grades kindergarten to fourth.
Supreme Court ruled that (IDEA) requires school boards to provide full-time nursing services to students with disabilities who need them during the school day. -
Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy
Arlington Central School District pays for the Murphy's child private school tuition under IDEA. -
Forest Grove School District v. T.A. (Part 2)
Regardless of whether the child previously received special education services through the public schools; Individuals with Disabilities Education Act authorizes reimbursement for private special education if public schools fails to provide a free appropriate public education. -
Forest Grove School District v. T.A, (Part 1)
*Student was denied to special education because he did not have a physical disability. After parents placed their child in a private school, Forest Grove School District tried to appeal the ruling due to the parents removing him without his ever having received special education services from a public agency. * -
Endrew F. v. Douglas Country School District
After school fails to accommodate equal opportunity to achieve success like other kids that do not have a learning disability.
If parents feel as though their child needs are not being met by the public schools IEP, they have the right to enroll their child into private school and seek reimbursement from the school district.