Draper v. Atlanta Independent School System

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “compensatory education” is “appropriate relief where responsible authorities have failed to provide a handicapped student with an appropriate education” under the IDEA
• holding that parents’ claim was timely where “[t]he persistent refusal of the School System to acknowledge the substantial evidence of its misdiagnosis borders on incredible”
• holding the “knew or should have known date” occurred after new evaluation and declining to hold that “families] should be blamed for not being experts about learning disabilities”
• finding that a claim for denial of FAPE accrued as soon as the mother became aware that there was a problem with her child’s education and the local education agency was not assessing her child
• rejecting a school district’s argument that a child’s long- undiscovered injury was time barred and upholding an award of approximately five years of compensatory education
• affirming award placing student at a private school for roughly five years as “compensatory, not punitive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).