Roark Ex Rel. Roark v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that appropriateness hinges on whether school “can provide” services mandated by IEP (emphasis added)
• noting that “mainstreaming” of children eligible for special education services under the IDEA is “not only a laudable goal but is also a requirement of the Act”
• denying challenge based on procedural error because parents did not offer “any evidence proving” that the error caused substantial harm
• DCPS’ failure to send a representative to an MDT meeting, a procedural violation, did not cause substantive harm
• “Academic success is an important factor ‘in determining whether an IEP is reasonably calculated to provide education benefits.’ ”
• “Academic success is an important factor in ‘determining whether an IEP is reasonably calculated to provide education benefits.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).