Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District
United States Supreme Court
137 S. Ct. 988 (2017)
Endrew's (plaintiff's) parents grew concerned that his public-school IEPs essentially repeated the same goals year after year with little meaningful progress, and after moving him to a private school specializing in autism that developed different, more effective strategies leading to substantial improvement over six months, the public school district (defendant) presented a follow-up IEP that was again essentially the same as before, prompting the parents to sue under the IDEA; the district court and Tenth Circuit both found the district's minimal-progress IEP sufficient.
Whether schools that receive federal benefits must provide a child with disabilities an education program reasonably calculated to allow progress appropriate for that child's particular circumstances.