As you know, it is rare that I blog more than once a week. I do make exceptions for extraordinary situations. This is one of those situations. Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court decided Endrew The decision contains stirring language, and is a huge victory for students with disabilities with IEP’s. It will also fundamentally
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Fry Decided
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Last week the United States Supreme Court came down with the decision in Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, the oral argument of which I discussed here. A whole bunch of people have blogged on the case, but I thought I would share my thoughts here. The blog entry is divided into three categories: …
OCR issues dear colleague letter on bullying on the basis of disability
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In the last quarter, my most popular blog entry was the one dealing with ADA Compliance Auditing: Higher Education Version, and so I thought I would turn to education again. In this particular blog entry, the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued a Dear Colleague letter on October 21, 2014…
Enshrinement of unfair advantage as a legal standard: OCR, 504, and Sports
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For years (every edition of my book starting with the very first edition published in 2000 has had a chapter on the ADA and sports), I’ve written about how the ADA applies to sports. The United States Department of Education Office of Civil Rights has just issued a guidance dealing with their section 504 regulations…