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· 8/26/2008

Sytsema Ex Rel. Sytsema v. Academy School District No. 20

Citations

  • 538 F.3d 1306
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 18221
  • 2008 WL 3905680

How courts have described this case

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

  • observing that this concept is “the central pillar of the IDEA statutory structure”
  • “[S]tates must provide all eligible students with a FAPE to receive federal funding under the IDEA.”
  • “[S]tates must provide all eligible students with a FAPE to receive federal funding under the IDEA.”
  • when assessing the sufficiency of an IEP, a district court is to \restrict its review to the draft IEP as written without considering any oral discussions that occurred between the respective parties\
  • in reviewing a final administrative decision under the IDEA, federal courts apply a “modified de novo review standard,” which assumes the ALJ’s factual findings are “pri-ma facie correct” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • \The IDEA specifically defines an IEP as a written document.\

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Judges: McConnell, Ebel, Gorsuch

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