Court to Hear IDEA Case on Parents’ Rights
Family seeks ruling that nonlawyers may argue for their children.
Sandee Winkelman says that when she and her husband, Jeff, pursued an appeal against their son’s school district over an education program they believed was inappropriate for the boy, it wasn’t the inexperienced lawyers they could occasionally afford to hire who helped them the most.
As the two parents took up the legal process themselves, it was law students at Cleveland State University who showed Ms. Winkelman around the school’s law library, explained how to look up special education case law, and helped her absorb the rules of federal civil procedure.
“I got thrown into a library that had a lot of students with big hearts,” said Ms. Winkelman, 44, who lives just a street away from the home where she grew up in this...
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