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191269P.pdf 06/03/2020 ISD No. 283 v. E.M.D.H., a minor
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-1269
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Grasz and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The district
court's refusal to allow the school district to supplement the record with
information regarding the student's performance since the ALJ's decision
was not an abuse of the district court's discretion; the district court
did not err in finding defendant had failed to provide the student with
the full and sufficiently comprehensive evaluation required by the IDEA
and Minnesota law; the record established the student was eligible for
special education and a state-funded FAPE; the ALJ and the district court
did not err in concluding the school district had breached its obligation
to identify the student by the spring of her eighth-grade year as a child
eligible for special education; the district court did not err in finding
plaintiffs were entitled to recover the costs associated with
comprehensive psychological evaluation, educational evaluation and private
educational services; the court erred in determining plaintiffs were not
entitled to an award of compensatory education in the form of private
tutoring until the student earns the credits expected of her same-age
peers.