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Arizona Education Lawyers The IDEA protects students with disabilities in disciplinary proceedings that may result in long term suspension or expulsion. Suspension over 10 days in a school year requires a Manifestation Determination Review (“MDR”). A student with a disability (with an IEP) may be suspended for up to 10 school days in a school…
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In 2022, state and local governments banned 2,571 different books. This is more books than were subject to such bans in the previous three years combined (2,436). Most of these efforts are taken at the local level. Texas’ Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources (READER) Act marked a departure from this practice and sought to…
By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995 Many parents envision expulsion hearings are mini-trials where their child has full rights to object and exclude things, like in regular court. However, public school expulsion hearings, as hearings governed by administrative law (the law relating to government agencies), have different rules from regular courts. …
In the case of Durig v. Youngstown, 2023-Ohio-4446, an appellate court affirmed a lower court’s order denying the city leave to amend its answer to plaintiff’s complaint to assert immunity as an affirmative defense. The city moved to amend its answer 2 years and 9 months after filing its initial answer, after discovery had…
This is an interesting case concerning the criteria for determining which children or young persons require a Co-ordinated Support Plan (CSP). Section 2 of the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 sets out the criteria as follows: For the purposes of this Act, a child or young person requires a plan (referred to…
Friday 8 March 2024 is International Women’s Day. Presumably to co-incide with this, the Scottish Government have released “Preventing and Responding to Gender Based Violence: A Whole School Framework“. It is noteworthy that the Scottish Government describe the document as a framework, rather than as guidance. However, the document does say that one of its…
Recently, a parent sent me an email asking whether a school district could significantly limit an observation of her son’s classroom. The school district was attempting to impose numerous restrictions. An amendment to the special education law in 2008 solidified a parent’s right to observe, and an advisory from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education…
Response to Consultation on Prescribing the minimum annual number of learning hours The Scottish Government are seeking views on the prescribed minimum learning hours for primary and secondary pupils in local authority schools in Scotland. Sadly, for many pupils the number of hours prescribed will be largely irrelevant as the statutory exemptions provided will allow…
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The IDEA protects students with disabilities in disciplinary proceedings that may result in long term suspension or expulsion. Suspension over 10 days in a school year requires a Manifestation Determination Review (MDR) (see below). A student with a disability (with an IEP) may be suspended for up to 10 school days in a school year…
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First off, so many don’t really have a good sense of what “extended school year” is all about. Specifically, there are students supported by an IEP, who tail off during breaks; often referred as “regression”. And in these situations, the IEP Team needs to consider the prospect of extending the school year into the period…
