{"id":625,"date":"2017-03-24T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/?p=625"},"modified":"2017-03-24T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:06:11","slug":"supreme-court-unanimously-expands-special-education-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/supreme-court-unanimously-expands-special-education-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Unanimously Expands Special Education Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Endrew F., A Minor, By And Through His Parents And Next Friends, Joseph F. Et Al. V. Douglas County School District<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on March 22, 2017 that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires schools to provide education programs that enable students to make progress from year to year. Delivering the opinion for the Court, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that an education program must be \u201creasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child\u2019s circumstances.\u201d This ruling does not require an ideal individualized education program (IEP), but it does charge schools to provide services that will enable a student to make progress achieving passing marks and advancing from grade to grade. Roberts also wrote that for a child for whom a regular classroom is not appropriate, an education program must be \u201cappropriately ambitious in light of his circumstances.\u201d This overturns the previous lower standard. The ruling continued, \u201cBut whatever else can be said about it, this standard is markedly more demanding than the \u2018merely more than <em>de minimis<\/em>\u2019 test applied by the Tenth Circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/16pdf\/15-827_0pm1.pdf\">https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/16pdf\/15-827_0pm1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Endrew F., A Minor, By And Through His Parents And Next Friends, Joseph F. Et Al. V. 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