Alexander Kerkam v. Floretta McKenzie Superintendent, D.C. Public Schools

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that Rowley rejected “[i]n at least four places” the notion that a public school placement must “maximize the potential of handicapped children”
• emphasizing that Rowley rejected “[i]n at least four places” the notion that a public school placement must “maximize the potential of handicapped children”
• reiterating that there is no requirement to \maximize the potential of handicapped children” when evaluating what is an \ ‘appropriate’ education”
• explaining that hearings must allow representation by counsel, confrontation and cross-examination, and compulsory process for the attendance of witnesses
• describing that the party challenging the hearing officer determination must “at least take on the burden of persuading the court that the hearing officer was wrong.”
• explaining that where a student was making progress at one school and might not make “the same gains” at a second school, the second school was not inappropriate simply because it was inferior, so long as it provided “some educational benefit” for the child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).