Ninth Circuit Rules that Limiting Parents’ Expert’s Class Observational Time Does Not (in this instance) Violate IDEA

    In L.M. v Capistrano Unified School District, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that limiting the parents’ classroom observational opportunities to twenty minute sessions, while the school district was allowed to observe the student in his private placement for up to three hours, did not significantly restrict the parents’ right to participate in [...]

Services Plans for Parentally-placed Private School Children with Disabilities

     Some students with disabilities attend private rather than public schools. There are three scenarios in which a student with a disability might be placed in a private school. First, the public school district places the child in a private school because it believes the private school is better able to provide a free appropriate [...]

Helping Parents Help their Students with Disabilities: Related Services to Support Parents

   Under the IDEA, students with disabilities must be provided the related services they need to benefit from their special education program. In most circumstances those services are provided to the child with a disability, but there are circumstances in which the IDEA requires that services be provided to the parents, and sometimes, others. In [...]