Rowley Standard
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The original FAPE standard from the Supreme Court case Board of Education v. Rowley (1982). The Court held that FAPE requires an IEP reasonably calculated to provide educational benefit. This standard was later raised by the Endrew F. decision in 2017.
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The right of every child with a disability to receive special education and related services at no cost to the family. "Appropriate" means the education must be reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child's circumstances, as established by the Supreme Court in Endrew F. v. Douglas County (2017).
The standard for FAPE established by the Supreme Court in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District (2017). The Court held that an IEP must be "reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child's circumstances." This replaced the lower "merely more than de minimis" standard.
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