Clifford Burr, by His Parents and Next Friends, Kenneth Burr, Betty Burr v. Gordon Ambach, as Commissioner of the New York State Education Department

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• stating that the plaintiff was entitled to compensatory education under the IDEA in an action brought against the commissioner of the New York State Education Department
• noting that person who was deprived of a FAPE before turning twenty-one “cannot go back to his previous birthdays to recover and obtain the free education to which he was entitled when he was younger”
• addressing whether an award of compensatory education to remedy IDEA violations can \continue beyond a child's twenty-first birthday\
• addressing whether an award of compensatory education to remedy IDEA violations can “continue beyond a child’s twenty-first birthday”
• “a parent can enroll a child in a private placement and then recover the tuition paid by the parent during the proceedings against the school board, if the proceedings ultimately establish that the parent’s placement was appropriate.”

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