Fight Over Payment for Tutoring Fairfax Special-Ed Student Marks Growing Trend - washingtonpost.com:
"Schools are required by federal law to provide a free and appropriate education for the country's more than 6 million special education students. But parents are not entitled to 'write a prescription for an ideal education and to have the prescription filled at the public expense,' the Fairfax school system argued in legal documents in 2004.
Fairfax officials said they try to be proactive so they can avoid costly, protracted disputes. The school system reorganized this year to create 25 positions to develop partnerships with parents and build education plans for its 24,000 special education students."
"Schools are required by federal law to provide a free and appropriate education for the country's more than 6 million special education students. But parents are not entitled to 'write a prescription for an ideal education and to have the prescription filled at the public expense,' the Fairfax school system argued in legal documents in 2004.
Fairfax officials said they try to be proactive so they can avoid costly, protracted disputes. The school system reorganized this year to create 25 positions to develop partnerships with parents and build education plans for its 24,000 special education students."