Floretta McKenzie Superintendent, D.C. Public Schools v. Christopher Smith, by His Parents

How courts have described this case

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• affirming private placement based on match between a student’s needs and the services offered at a particular school
• using “placement” to refer to the student’s “day program in a private special education facility”
• requiring the school district to place child in a program -24- similar to the one that the child grew out of for the duration of the administrative proceedings
• “an independent due process challenge to State procedures might succeed where ... resort to EHA procedures would be futile or inadequate”
• where district sought to change child's IEP, it had the burden of proving that the proposed placement complied with the requirements of the Act
• determination of whether the IDEA requires residential placement turns on whether full-time residential placement is necessary for educational purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).