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· 10/1/1990

Atwal v. City of Riverside

Citations

  • 498 U.S. 855

How courts have described this case

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  • issue is whether school district’s IEP struck an adequate and appropriate balance, not whether better or worse program existed
  • issue is whether school district’s IEP struck an adequate and appropriate balance, not whether better or worse program existed
  • issue is not whether the program preferred by the parents is better but whether the program proposed by the school district \struck an 'adequate and appropriate' balance on the maximum benefit/least restrictive fulcrum\
  • “actual educational results are relevant to determining the efficacy of educators’ policy choices.”
  • issue is not whether the program preferred by the parents is better but whether the program proposed by the school district “struck an ‘adequate and appropriate’ balance on the maximum benefit/least restrictive fulcrum”

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