Although the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”) has long aimed to extend what it calls a “free appropriate public education” to all students with disabilities, one demographic group—students from lower-income homes—has consistently been left behind. Securing a remedy under the IDEA’s highly technical rules and impermeable evidentiary standards increasingly requires the assistance of both lawyers and experts, neither of whom are easily accessible to lower-income families. This i

Process Failures, Unremedied Harms, and Students with Disabilities
Claire Raj
