Nb v. Hellgate Elementary School Dist. Ex Rel. Board of Directors

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a school district may not “abdicate” its responsibilities under the IDEA and that merely referring a child’s parents to a third party for testing violates the statutory requirement that the school district “ensure” that the child is assessed
• noting that the duty may also by triggered by the 18 informed suspicions of outside experts
• finding where an IEP team was “on notice that [the student] likely-suffered from some form of autism” it was insufficient merely to advise the student’s parents to have the student evaluated
• school did not fulfill obligations of IDEA by simply referring parents to facility for testing because such action-does not ensure that student is assessed
• “[A] school district must 24 comply not only with federal statutory and regulatory procedures, but with state regulations as 25 well”
• “We review the district court’s findings of fact for clear error even when they are based on the written record of administrative proceedings.”

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