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211707P.pdf 07/29/2022 Minnetonka Public Schools v. M.L.K.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-1707
and No: 21-1770
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Gruender, Circuit
Judge]
Civil case - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The school
district fulfilled its obligations to provide M.L.K. with a free
appropriate public education (FAPE), and the district court's decision
affirming the administrative law judge's finding that the school district
had failed to do so and ordering it to provide compensatory education is
reversed; M.L.K.'s lack of progress was not, as the district court
concluded, due to the school district's misclassification of his primary
disabilities; even if M.L.K. had been misclassified, he was not denied a
FAPE because the school district created an Individualized Education Plan
that was reasonably calculated to allow him to make appropriate progress
in light of his circumstances.