«A school district's responsibility to pay attorney's fees under the IDEA should be determined in keeping with
existing fairness principles and common sense,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.
The presence of the
principles of equity in the common law, infused with the coming of the Judicature Acts of the 19th c., sought to reconcile the literalism of rule - based decisions and the goal of
fairness that previously
existed in two independent court systems.