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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 135663" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000066">"Poor Man's <em>Burlington</em> Remedy" </span></span></span>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] </strong></p> <p style="text-align: left"> </p><p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The harsh reality is that most families cannot afford to remove their child from an inappropriate public school program and pay tuition for a private placement, while also incurring the expenses of a <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/dp.index.htm" target="_blank">due process hearing</a> and subsequent litigation.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/08/11th.jdraper.atlanta.htm" target="_blank"><em>Draper</em></a>, the 11th Circuit fashioned a "poor man's <em>Burlington</em> remedy" for these families:</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 Act does not relegate families who lack the resources to place their children unilaterally in private schools to shouldering the burden of proving that the public school cannot adequately educate their child before those parents can obtain a placement in a private school. The Act instead empowers the district court to use broad discretion to fashion appropriate relief."</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Read more in <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/art/draper.comped.wyner.htm" target="_blank">Poor Man's <em>Burlington</em> Remedy</a> by Steve Wyner, one of Jarron's attorneys. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 135663, member: 23"] [LEFT][B][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000066]"Poor Man's [I]Burlington[/I] Remedy" [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [/B] [/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The harsh reality is that most families cannot afford to remove their child from an inappropriate public school program and pay tuition for a private placement, while also incurring the expenses of a [URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/dp.index.htm"]due process hearing[/URL] and subsequent litigation.[/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]In [URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/08/11th.jdraper.atlanta.htm"][I]Draper[/I][/URL], the 11th Circuit fashioned a "poor man's [I]Burlington[/I] remedy" for these families: [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]"The Act does not relegate families who lack the resources to place their children unilaterally in private schools to shouldering the burden of proving that the public school cannot adequately educate their child before those parents can obtain a placement in a private school. The Act instead empowers the district court to use broad discretion to fashion appropriate relief."[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2] Read more in [URL="http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/art/draper.comped.wyner.htm"]Poor Man's [I]Burlington[/I] Remedy[/URL] by Steve Wyner, one of Jarron's attorneys. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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