Disproportionality: Segregation Through Special Education

Update

B.D. Compensatory Education

In March 2011, Law Center client B.D. was awarded compensatory education by an administrative hearing officer in his case against LMSD. B.D. is a student with average intelligence whose behaviors impeded his learning when LMSD failed to create a plan to assist him. The hearing officer found that although LMSD recognized that there was a need to help B.D. with his behavior; it made no attempt to conduct an assessment or to create an individualized plan for him. The hearing officer also held that LMSD failed to address B.D.’s truancy.