The 9th Circuit Court of appeals has ruled in Bellflower Unified School District v. Lua ex rel. K.L., that school districts are not allowed to deny services to students who are not officially enrolled in their school district. In this matter, a California school district refused to hold a student’s annual review IEP meeting unless the parents removed her from her private parochial school setting and re-enrolled her into the public school district. The appellate panel found that the district’s refusal to offer a FAPE to the student warranted reimbursement to the parents for the student’s parochial school placement.
October 2020
