Kevin T v. Elmhurst Community School District
This is similar to the Jarron Draper Case. In this case, under the instruction of a public school system, a student was found not to have been provided with a FAPE. Despite being in special education for 13 years, this student’s IQ and Reading/Writing/Math scores actually dropped. Additionally, the district failed to write and review IEP objectives, failed to provide assistive technology (the child’s case manager did not know what AT was), failed to have the student participate in state achievement tests without stating why on the IEP, and failed to develop a comprehensive transition plan. The witnesses for the district were found to lack credibility, often changing their interpretations of evaluations the student was given. On top of this, the district was found to have skipped the necessary step of evaluating the student’s progress toward his IEP goals, and simply graduated him anyway, so that the district would be relieved of the responsibility of providing a FAPE.
As compensation, the school district was ordered to pay for private schooling, in a specialized “therapeutic” school, until the student reached age 22 (he was 19 when the case was settled.)
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