Kristopher Sellers v. The School Board Of The City Of Manassas

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• explaining that the provision of compensatory or punitive damages would be inconsistent with the IDEA’S structure
• “Tort-like damages are simply inconsistent with IDEA’s statutory scheme. . . . [T]he touchstone of IDEA is the actual provision of a free appropriate public education.”
• Where the School Board failed to evaluate the student for “many years,” from the fourth grade until high school, the Fourth Circuit held that this presents “at best, a negligence claim—that the defendants should have recognized [plaintiff’s] disability.”
• “Tort-like damages are simply inconsistent with IDEA’s statutory scheme.”

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