Special Ed

Brown V. Board of Education

1954

Issue: Overturn of separate but equal doctrine;
integration of Kansas public schools
Finding: The case was the basis for future rulings that
children with disabilities cannot be excluded from
school.

Irving Independent School District V. Tatro

1984

Issue: Defining related services
Finding: Clean intermittent catheterization is a related service when
necessary to allow a student to stay in school.

Hoing V Doe

1988

Issue: Exclusion from school
Finding: Students whose misbehavior is related to their disability cannot
be denied education.

Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District

1993

Issue: Paid interpreter at parochial high school
Finding: Paying for a sign language interpreter at a parochial school does
not violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

Doe V. Withers

1993

Issue: FAPE
Findings: Teachers are responsible for the implementation of
accommodations specified in individual students’ IEPs.

Arlington Central School District Board of Ed V. Murphy

2006

Issue: Fees
Findings: Parents are entitled to receiver fees for expert witnesses in
special education due process hearings.

Forest Grove School District V T.A.

2009

Issue: Private school tuition reimbursement
Findings: Parents are entitled reimbursement for private school special
education services regardless of whether the child had received
special education services in a public-school setting and the
public school had not provided a FAPE.

Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District

2017

Issue: Equal opportunity to achieve success like
other kids
Findings: The school district argued that the boy who had autism had the
right to only a de minimis, or minimal, benefit from the IEP.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled to send the case back to
the trial level. The district judge in the case, who had initially
ruled in favor of the Douglas County School District, reversed his
decision and ruled in favor of the parents of a child with autism.