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· 7/2/2010

Lathrop R-II School District v. Gray

Citations

  • 611 F.3d 419
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 13581
  • 2010 WL 2630337

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a school meets its legal obligations under the IDEA when it “(1) complies with the law’s procedures in developing an IEP, and (2) the resulting IEP is ‘reasonably calculated to enable the child to receive educational benefits.’”
  • rejecting argument that baseline data is necessary to show progress in an IEP
  • “We also do not consider allegations regarding incidents beyond the two year statute of limitations applicable to IDEA claims . . .”
  • “[T]he district court must accord due weight to the administrative panel’s decision.” (emphasis added)
  • “The IDEA does not explicitly mandate such [historical baseline] data, however. What it does require is ‘a statement of the child’s present levels of educational performance . . . .’”
  • IDEA does not mandate IEP include behavior plan or behavioral 12 improvements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Murphy, Beam, Benton

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