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Is That Appropriate?: Clarifying The Idea's Free Appropriate Public Education Standard Post-Endrew F., Josh Cowin
Is That Appropriate?: Clarifying The Idea's Free Appropriate Public Education Standard Post-Endrew F., Josh Cowin
Northwestern University Law Review
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires schools to provide all students who qualify for special education services with a free appropriate public education (FAPE). However, the IDEA does not specify how much substantive educational benefit students must be afforded in order to receive a FAPE, leaving this question for the courts. For over thirty years, courts split over the amount of educational benefit that school districts must provide to their special education students, leading to significant confusion and anxiety among parents and school officials regarding their legal rights. The Supreme Court sought to clarify this standard in Endrew …
Litigating Trauma As Disability In American Schools, Taylor N. Mullaney
Litigating Trauma As Disability In American Schools, Taylor N. Mullaney
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
No abstract provided.
The Right To Education: An Analysis Through The Lens Of The Deontological Method Of Immanuel Kant, Kavana Ramaswamy
The Right To Education: An Analysis Through The Lens Of The Deontological Method Of Immanuel Kant, Kavana Ramaswamy
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
The framework of categorical imperatives is one of the most famous deontological theories of rights that have been formulated. The framework has often been used to justify human rights policies all over the world. While they have been subject to several criticisms over the last two centuries, some of these include improvements to the original framework. This paper analyses the framework of the categorical imperatives and suggest certain modifications to improve internal coherence.
The paper then seeks to apply this framework to the right to education, a right that is under fire in the conservatively-charged political arena today. This is …
School Desegregation 2.0: What Is Required To Finally Integrate America's Public Schools, Jim Hilbert
School Desegregation 2.0: What Is Required To Finally Integrate America's Public Schools, Jim Hilbert
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
No abstract provided.