High Court Hears Case on Nursing Care for Students
The U.S. Supreme Court last week took up the question of whether federal law requires school districts to pay for one-on-one nursing care for the growing number of medically fragile students who attend regular classrooms.
The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, district urged the high court to limit the scope of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act so districts do not have to pay for individual nurses or health aides for students with serious medical disabilities.
Under the IDEA, districts are responsible for special education and "related services" for students with disabilities. As defined by the law, those services include such assistance as transportation, counseling, and support services such as speech pathology. But districts are not responsible for "medical services," except for initial diagnosis or evaluation of a student to determine...
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