Defining Appropriate Education

Defining Appropriate Education Name: Institution: Defining Appropriate Education Question 1: Describe the issue involved in defining what an ‘appropriate education’ is under IDEA in the recent Supreme Court ruling in Endrew v. Douglas County School District. The issue of appropriate education talks about academic progress in the public-school program. The parents of Endrew made an appeal to the United States District Court as the court upheld a hearing on an officer’s verdict that the IDEA required school districts to deliver “some educational benefit.” The court seemed to hold Drew as he made little progress in the program, which was quite congruent to the law (Kauffman 1). The parents also appealed that the intentions of IDEA are to ensure that schools offer meaningful education to learners. What was the previous interpretation of an ‘appropriate education’ under Hendrick Hudson Board of Education v. Rowley? The case was presented on 18th August 2016, where the case aimed at urging the Supreme Court to give the parent’s a petition as a means of deciding on the issue. The issue was on whether the ‘educational benefit’ that the district schools provided need to be higher than de minimis’ or they were to satisfy the requirements of FAPE requirement (Bateman and Fred 1). Rowley’s standardization tested scores as scores that reached the 70th to 80th ranks as compared to the peer group. What change occurred in the Supreme Court decision in Endrew v. Douglas County School District? 22nd March 2017, the decision of the Supreme Court in the Endrew v. Douglas County School case made a unanimous decision to reject the “de minimis”, which was a decision applied by the 10th Circuit (Yell and David 10). The opinion of Chief Justice Roberts alleged that students needed to receive educational programs that provided more than de minimis. Question 2: Assessments in Special Education The case I selected involved a parent, who represented the Student vs. Capis...