Education & Youth
Special education, discipline, records, and access — the recurring school-law questions.
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Education & Youth
Individualized Education Programs Under IDEA
An IEP is a binding written plan for one child, produced by a team that includes the parents, and judged by whether it is reasonably calculated to enable progress appropriate to that child.
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Section 504 Plans and School Accommodations
Section 504 reaches a wider group of students than IDEA and obliges districts to provide accommodations, but its procedures are thinner and district policy supplies most of the detail.
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School Discipline: Suspension, Expulsion, and Due Process
A short suspension requires notice, an explanation of the evidence, and a chance to respond. Longer removals require more, and state statute rather than the Constitution supplies the detail.
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Title IX Complaints: Process, Evidence, and Outcomes
A Title IX report triggers supportive measures and, on a formal complaint, a defined grievance process. A separate court route exists for damages but demands far more.
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FERPA: Education Records, Access, and Disclosure
FERPA gives parents and eligible students the right to inspect, seek amendment of, and control disclosure of education records, enforced by the Department rather than by private suit.
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Homeschooling: Notice, Assessment, and Recordkeeping
No federal statute governs home instruction. State law sets notice, qualification, subject, and assessment rules, and the records a family keeps decide what happens on re-entry.
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School Residency and Enrollment Disputes
Residency is state law and usually turns on living in the district, not owning property. Federal rules override it for several groups, and refusals carry an appeal route.
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Bullying and Harassment: What Schools Must Do
No federal statute bans bullying. Where the conduct targets a protected trait it becomes discriminatory harassment, and the school must respond once it knows or should know.
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Borrower Defense and Closed School Loan Discharge
Borrower defense discharges a federal loan for school misconduct; closed school discharge covers a school that shut down mid-program. Different facts, different proof, different pitfalls.
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Disability Accommodations in Higher Education
After high school, Section 504 and the ADA replace IDEA. There is no IEP and no duty to find students, so the student must self-identify, document, and ask.
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Compulsory Attendance and Truancy Proceedings
State law fixes the compulsory ages, the excused absence categories, and the point at which absence becomes truancy. Cases can run against the child, the parent, or both.
