Published by MARE, April 2010 Proactive Measures Your District Can Take Now On February 1, 2010, Mickes Goldman O’Toole celebrated its two year anniversary. And in the past two years alone, the firm’s special education department has handled approximately sixty OCR complaints against districts across the state of Missouri, each alleging discrimination on the basis [...]
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Arming Your District Against OCR – By: Alefia E. Mithaiwala
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Arming Your District Against OCR: Proactive Measures Your District Can Take Now – By: Alefia E. Mithaiwala & Thomas A. Mickes
Monday, March 1st, 2010Published by MOASBO, March/April 2010 On February 1, 2010, Mickes Goldman O’Toole celebrated its two year anniversary. And in the past two years alone, our special education department has handled approximately sixty OCR complaints against districts across the state of Missouri, each alleging discrimination on the basis of disability. In addition, our office continues to [...]
Recent Eighth Circuit Case Law: A Lesson in What Not to Do in Disciplining Disabled Students – By: Alefia Mithaiwala
Friday, January 1st, 2010Published by MARE, January 2010 Consider this: a high school principal suspends a disabled student on September 8 for fighting and bringing a pocket knife to school. He tells the student and his parent that the suspension is “until a hearing before the school board can be arranged.” Problem number 1. Then, because the student [...]
An Update on Private School Reimbursement Under the IDEA: Some Good News for School Districts – By: Alefia Mithaiwala
Friday, January 1st, 2010Published by MOASBO, January/February 2010 On June 22, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, parents may seek private school tuition reimbursement, even if their child has never before received special education services. The case, Forest Grove School District v. T.A., was widely touted as a win for [...]
Seclusion and Restraint In Missouri Schools – By: Alefia E. Mithaiwala
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Published by MARE, June 2009 “Missouri School Children Placed In Padded Seclusion Rooms” “Parents of Disabled Students Say Metro District is Mistreating Their Kids” These are just two of the many headlines involving the use of seclusion and/or restraint in schools that have peppered newspapers across Missouri and the country. The issue has received so [...]