O'Toole Ex Rel. O'Toole v. Olathe District Schools Unified School District No. 233

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• holding that an individualized educational program that merely provided for educational services “as appropriate” did not result in the denial of a free appropriate public educa- tion
• holding that Kansas law does not provide for a heightened standard
• stating that courts generally defer to a hearing officer’s credibility determinations
• observing that “[n]either the statute nor reason countenance ‘Monday Morning Quarterbacking’ in evaluating the appropriateness of a child’s placement” and holding “the measure and adequacy of an IEP can only be determined as of the time it is offered to the student”
• “[T]echnical deviations from the requirements ... do not render an IEP entirely invalid; to hold otherwise would exalt form over substance.” (quotation marks omitted
• “an IEP is not inadequate simply because parents show that a child makes better progress in a different program.”

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