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Every Day Counts: Proposals To Reform The Idea's Due Process Structure, Elizabeth Shaver Jan 2015

Every Day Counts: Proposals To Reform The Idea's Due Process Structure, Elizabeth Shaver

Akron Law Faculty Publications

It is a core principle of special education legislation that the parents of children with disabilities can challenge the child’s educational programming through an administrative due process hearing. Yet, for years the special education due process structure has been criticized as inefficient, anti-collaborative, and prohibitively expensive. Those criticisms have given rise to widely varying proposals to reform special education due process, proposals that range from adding certain alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to a wholesale replacement of the due process structure. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of special education dispute resolution. The article first examines the lively debate among scholars …


School Closures As Education Reform: New Evidence From Chicago And Ohio, Nicole Stelle Garnett Jan 2015

School Closures As Education Reform: New Evidence From Chicago And Ohio, Nicole Stelle Garnett

Journal Articles

Book review of School Closures as Education Reform: New Evidence from Chicago and Ohio by Deven Carlson and Stephanie Lavertu.


Instead Of Suspension: Alternative Strategies For Effective School Discipline, Jenni Owen, Jane Wettach, Katie Claire Hoffman Jan 2015

Instead Of Suspension: Alternative Strategies For Effective School Discipline, Jenni Owen, Jane Wettach, Katie Claire Hoffman

Faculty Scholarship

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Accidentally On Purpose: Intent In Disability Discrimination Law, Mark Weber Jan 2015

Accidentally On Purpose: Intent In Disability Discrimination Law, Mark Weber

College of Law Faculty

American disability discrimination laws contain few intent requirements. Yet courts frequently demand showings of intent in disability discrimination lawsuits. Intent requirements arose almost by accident: through a false statutory analogy; by repetition of obsolete judicial language; and by doctrine developed to avoid a nonexistent conflict with another law. Demanding that section 504 and Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) claimants show intent imposes a burden not found in those statutes or their interpretive regulations. This Article provides reasons not to impose intent requirements for liability or monetary relief in section 504 and ADA cases concerning reasonable accommodations. It demonstrates that no …