The Supreme Court sided with a deaf student who alleges his school district failed to provide him with an adequate education and should pay damages. The technical question was whether he must exhaust all of the IDEA administrative procedures before suing.
The technical question for the justices was whether Perez had to exhaust all of the administrative procedures required under IDEA before he could sue under another law.
They say the school district inflated Perez’s academic progress, making the Perez family believe he was on track to graduate. But months before graduation, they learned he would not get a diploma. They filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Education.
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