I’m a little late picking up on this story, but it’s worth capturing here. The Chattanoogan (TN, US) reported that Weatherly Law Firm has charged two local education agencies (LEAs) $1.7 and $2.1 million in cases revolving around provision of special education services. The LEAs are in the Chattanooga and Altlanta (GA, US) areas.
One obvious issue here is the echo of the flap about fees during the 2004 reauthorization of IDEA; these two instances may be isolated and, therefore, now worthy of policy making, but if they’re common, something should be done.
A second concern is just why LEAs don’t avoid these things or, at least, settle them early and at lower costs. An LEA could buy a lot of materials and teaching assistants with that kind of money.
Thanks to Sanford Hausler’s blog on special education law Other publications covering this and related stories:.
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