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Easterbrooks, Susan R.; Lytle, Linda R.; Sheets, Patricia M.; Crook, Bobbie S. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2004
In 2000, the 11th Circuit Court provided the largest single award in special education history to date, approximately $2.5 million, to two teenage students who were deaf. The students were judged to have been denied a free, appropriate public education (FAPE), having spent their academic careers in generic special education classes for students…
Descriptors: Related Services (Special Education), Deafness, Public Education, Civil Rights