Supporting Parents in Special Education https://iepmi.com Focused Advocacy for Others Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:33:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://iepmi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Supporting Parents in Special Education https://iepmi.com 32 32 Procedural Safeguards https://iepmi.com/procedural-safeguards/ https://iepmi.com/procedural-safeguards/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:33:17 +0000 https://iepmi.com/?p=78 At each IEP meeting, the school is required to provide you with the procedural safeguards. This is a packet of pages that most people, including myself, before I knew better, didn’t read. Knowing what you can do or demand to be done is huge. My personal favorite is the 10-day letter. Can you figure out why?

https://www.michigan.gov/mde/-/media/Project/Websites/mde/specialeducation/proc-safe/Procedural_Safeguards_Notice.pdf?rev=b38501b73e7649fcb913042c3b36c5cc&hash=FF5206E77A9F3157631280FBD22280E1

]]> https://iepmi.com/procedural-safeguards/feed/ 0 Supreme court ruling for compensatory damages. https://iepmi.com/supreme-court-ruling-for-compensatory-damages/ https://iepmi.com/supreme-court-ruling-for-compensatory-damages/#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:12:02 +0000 https://iepmi.com/?p=71 A. J. T. and her parents then sued under the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act, requesting a permanent injunction, reimbursement for certain costs, and compensatory damages. The District Court granted
summary judgment for the school, and the Eighth Circuit affirmed. In
so holding, the Eighth Circuit stated that a school district’s failure to
provide a reasonable accommodation was not enough to state a prima
facie case of discrimination under Monahan v. Nebraska, 687 F. 2d
1164, which requires a plaintiff to prove conduct by school officials rising to the level of bad faith or gross misjudgment.

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/supreme-court-decision-lets-students-sue-schools-more-easily-for-disability-bias/2025/06

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