M.C., by & Through His Parent & Next Friend Mrs. C v. Voluntown Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a court should only consider the private placement’s adequacy after it determines that the public school failed to provide a FAPE
• observing that where “the challenged IEP was adequate, the state has satisfied its obligations under the IDEA and the necessary inquiry is at an end”
• finding that the defendant’s inadequate IEP for the student’s eighth grade school year was not relevant to whether his IEP for ninth grade was adequate
• stating that “courts have held uniformly that reimbursement is barred where parents unilaterally arrange for private educational services without ever notifying the school board of their dissatisfaction with their child’s IEP”
• denying reimbursement because parents failed to notify public school of private counseling until well after counseling had concluded
• finding “reimbursement is barred” because the parent “unilaterally arrange[d] for private educational services without ever notifying the school board of their dissatisfaction with their child’s IEP”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).