· 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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