Sentences with phrase «prevail over school districts»

The law mandates the awarding of legal fees to the parents of handicapped children who prevail over school districts in special - education «actions or proceedings.»

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Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Its June 2009 decision in Safford United School District v. Redding, in which eight justices agreed that a near strip - search of an 8th - grade girl suspected of concealing prescription - strength ibuprofen was unconstitutional, at first glance appears to be an exception — a sign that the courts will continue to watch over the shoulders of school officials to ensure that reasonableness and proportionality prSchool District v. Redding, in which eight justices agreed that a near strip - search of an 8th - grade girl suspected of concealing prescription - strength ibuprofen was unconstitutional, at first glance appears to be an exception — a sign that the courts will continue to watch over the shoulders of school officials to ensure that reasonableness and proportionality prschool officials to ensure that reasonableness and proportionality prevail.