Hot off the Supreme Court docket! Parents of special education students may seek reimbursement for their private school placement even if the child never received special education services in the public school. Once a finding is made that the school district denied the student a FAPE–a free appropriate public education–and that the parent’s private school provides a FAPE–reimbursement is possible.

Here is the N Y. Times article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/education/23special.html?emc=eta1

This is big and will affect many schools and parents…

For a perspective from a parent advocacy website, Wrightslaw, you may wish to visit:
http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/art/forestgrove.ta.analysis.htm

Your take on it?

About Miriam

Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA—an expert in public education, focused on special education law— is a lawyer, author, speaker, consultant, and reformer. For more than 35 years, Miriam worked with educators, parents, policy makers, and citizens to translate complex legalese into plain English and focus on good practices for children. Now, she focuses her passion on reforming special education, with her new book, Special Education 2.0—Breaking Taboos to Build a NEW Education Law. Presentations include those at the AASA Conference, Orange County (CA), Boston College (MA), CADRE (OR), and the Fordham Institute (DC). Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Education Next, Hoover Digest, The University of Chicago Law Review on line, DianeRavitch.net, and The Atlantic Monthly on line.

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