Disabled students’ education rights upgraded by Supreme Court
Students with disabilities have a legal right to educational support at school that will enable each one to make measurable progress, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday. It is not enough that progress is simply more than a bare minimum, the court said in an opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr./ Since 1975, federal law has guaranteed a “free appropriate public education” to all disabled students attending schools that receive federal funds. But, until now, the court had never attempted to define a standard to ...
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