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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 135662" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>From: <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Excerpts:</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">On March 20, 2007, the District Court of Georgia ordered the Atlanta Independent School System to pay Jarron Draper's tuition at a private special education school for <strong>four years</strong>, or until he graduated from high school, as <strong>prospective</strong> compensatory education for their persistent failure to educate him.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> The Judge ruled that </span></span>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">"Compensatory awards should compensate, and this means that they must do more than provide &#8216;some benefit' as required by ordinary IEPs ...</span>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">" <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/07/GA.jdraper.atlanta.htm" target="_blank">Decision</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The Atlanta Independent School System and Jarron appealed to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to resolve different legal issues.</span></span> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">On March 6, 2008, the Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the decision of the District Court in <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/08/11th.jdraper.atlanta.htm" target="_blank"><em>Jarron Draper v. Atlanta Independent School System</em></a> (11th Cir. 2008).</span></span></p><p> </p><p>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm" target="_blank">This Alert</a> describes the case and how it will help other families and their attorneys negotiate better settlements with school districts. The Alert includes additional information about Jarron and the legal issues in these decisions.</span>[/FONT] </p><p> </p><p><strong>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Prospective Compensatory Ed in a Private School </strong></span></span></span></span>[/FONT]</strong> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In </span></span>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/07/GA.jdraper.atlanta.htm" target="_blank"><em>Jarron Draper v. Atlanta Independent School District</em></a> (N.D. GA 2007)</span>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">, the District Court held that: </span></span>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">"Compensatory education involves discretionary, prospective, injunctive relief crafted by a court to remedy what might be termed an educational deficit created by an educational agency's failure over a given period of time to provide a FAPE to a student ... </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">"Compensatory awards should compensate, and this means that they must do more than provide &#8216;some benefit' as required by ordinary IEPs ... compensatory education is necessary to preserve a handicapped child's right to a free education."</span>[/FONT]</p><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the District Court's award of compensatory education that required the school system to pay prospective educational services provided by a private school. The Court specifically rejected the notion that the student had to prove that the public school system was incapable of providing the compensatory education.</span></span></p><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The Court relied on the Supreme Court decisions in <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/ussupct.burlington.htm" target="_blank"><em>Sch. Comm. of Burlington v. Dep't of Educ</em></a>., 471 U.S. 359, 105 S.Ct. 1996 (1985) and <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/ussupct.carter.htm" target="_blank"><em>Florence County Sch. Dist. Four v. Carter ex rel. Carter</em></a>, 510 U.S. 7, 114 S.Ct. (1993), which held that school districts are required to reimburse parents for the costs of private placements in nonpublic schools when the public school failed to provide the child with an appropriate education.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Relying on these decisions, the Court reasoned that the District Court had the authority to require a public school to pay the cost of prospective compensatory education that would be provided by a private school. </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Read more about it at <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm</a> .</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 135662, member: 23"] From: [URL]http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm[/URL] Excerpts: [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]On March 20, 2007, the District Court of Georgia ordered the Atlanta Independent School System to pay Jarron Draper's tuition at a private special education school for [B]four years[/B], or until he graduated from high school, as [B]prospective[/B] compensatory education for their persistent failure to educate him. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2] The Judge ruled that [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]"Compensatory awards should compensate, and this means that they must do more than provide ‘some benefit' as required by ordinary IEPs ...[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]" [URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/07/GA.jdraper.atlanta.htm"]Decision[/URL] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The Atlanta Independent School System and Jarron appealed to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to resolve different legal issues.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]On March 6, 2008, the Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the decision of the District Court in [URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/08/11th.jdraper.atlanta.htm"][I]Jarron Draper v. Atlanta Independent School System[/I][/URL] (11th Cir. 2008).[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm"]This Alert[/URL] describes the case and how it will help other families and their attorneys negotiate better settlements with school districts. The Alert includes additional information about Jarron and the legal issues in these decisions.[/SIZE][/FONT] [B][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][B]Prospective Compensatory Ed in a Private School [/B][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]In [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/07/GA.jdraper.atlanta.htm"][I]Jarron Draper v. Atlanta Independent School District[/I][/URL] (N.D. GA 2007)[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2], the District Court held that: [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] "Compensatory education involves discretionary, prospective, injunctive relief crafted by a court to remedy what might be termed an educational deficit created by an educational agency's failure over a given period of time to provide a FAPE to a student ... "Compensatory awards should compensate, and this means that they must do more than provide ‘some benefit' as required by ordinary IEPs ... compensatory education is necessary to preserve a handicapped child's right to a free education."[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the District Court's award of compensatory education that required the school system to pay prospective educational services provided by a private school. The Court specifically rejected the notion that the student had to prove that the public school system was incapable of providing the compensatory education.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The Court relied on the Supreme Court decisions in [URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/ussupct.burlington.htm"][I]Sch. Comm. of Burlington v. Dep't of Educ[/I][/URL]., 471 U.S. 359, 105 S.Ct. 1996 (1985) and [URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/ussupct.carter.htm"][I]Florence County Sch. Dist. Four v. Carter ex rel. Carter[/I][/URL], 510 U.S. 7, 114 S.Ct. (1993), which held that school districts are required to reimburse parents for the costs of private placements in nonpublic schools when the public school failed to provide the child with an appropriate education. Relying on these decisions, the Court reasoned that the District Court had the authority to require a public school to pay the cost of prospective compensatory education that would be provided by a private school. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Read more about it at [URL]http://www.wrightslaw.com/nltr/08/al.0310.draper.htm[/URL] . [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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