This week, associate Kevin Golembiewski published an article in the Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania's premier legal newspaper, encouraging recent law school graduates to become special education attorneys. Here are the first few paragraphs of the article: You may not know what special education law is, much less what it means to be a special education attorney, [...]
David J. Berney co-authored this article with Timothy Gilsbach, Esquire, for a continuing legal education presentation. I. Introduction The IDEA provides a series of procedural and substantive protections for parents and their children with qualifying disabilities. In considering an IDEA complaint, the hearing officer is supposed to make his/her decision “on substantive grounds based on [...]
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) is a federal law that was passed in 1975 in order to aid the nation’s students with physical and mental disabilities. The IDEA guarantees students access to special education; it is the nation's banner special education law. Finding that “[i]mproving educational results for children with disabilities is [...]
This article was originally published in The Legal Intelligencer on July 3, 2017. M.M. grew up in an inner-city neighborhood in Boston. While in utero, M.M. experienced fetal distress while exposed to crack cocaine. As an adolescent, his mother was repeatedly incarcerated due to drug use. Because M.M. never knew his father, he transitioned in [...]
