Background
The Name Of The Boy Who Was Struggling
Who is Endrew F.?
What law did the parents say the school violated?
What is FAPE?
This law protects the educational rights of students with disabilities.
What is IDEA?
This plan outlines the special education services and goals for a student with a disability.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
What does FAPE mean?
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
The Name Of The School
What is Douglas County School District?
Why was this a FAPE violation?
What is support was not appropriate to the student’s learning?
The school district maintained that Endrew was making some degree of progress under this educational plan.
What is an IEP?
The Supreme Court ruled that students with disabilities deserve this kind of educational progress, rather than just minimal improvement.
What is meaningful progress?
What is an IEP?
What is Individualized Education Program?
Year Of The Case
What is 2017?
Why does a one-size-fits-all approach not work for an IEP?
What is IEPs that should be tailored to individual students needs?
The school believed they fulfilled the requirements set by this law
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
The Supreme Court ruled that an IEP must be reasonably calculated to enable progress that is appropriate in light of this.
What are the child’s individual circumstances?
IEP goals must be ____ and _____ while reflecting each students unique abilities and circumstances.
What is ambitious and achievable?
Challenges In Education Journey
What is due to minimal progress under an existing IEP from the school?
What does “de minimis” mean?
What is too small or meaningful to be considered?
The school believed that this level of progress was enough to satisfy IDEA
What is minimal progress?
The Court ruled that an educational plan must be appropriately ambitious and tailored to each student’s unique abilities and ________.
What is each student’s unique potential?
This case changed how schools implement IEPs, ensuring that progress measurements are aligned with students ______ rather that minimal advancement.
What is potential?
Concerns
What is not being sufficient enough to offer a new, meaningful, educational plan?
If support was being given, what was the issue?
What is support was not providing any real progress or improvement, goals were not being met?
The school argued that Endrew's IEP was appropriate because it provided him with some of this.
What is educational benefit?
The Supreme Court rejected the idea that the IDEA is satisfied by barely more than de minimis progress. What higher standard did the Court establish for IEPs?
What is an IEP must be reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of their circumstances, with goals that are appropriately ambitious?
One way this case is implemented
What is Continuous progress monitoring, Goal setting, or IEP challenging goals?