Board of Education of the Appoquinimink School District v. Johnson, 50 IDELR 33, 543 F. Supp.2d 351 (D.Del.2008)

In her presentation at the 19th Annual CASE (Counsel for Administrators in Special Education), Julie Weatherly mentioned a case whereby An adminstrative panel's decision was reversed. The original verdict was that the school district failed to meet its obligations when it chose not to provide a full-time ASL interpreter to a deaf student enrolled at a private Episcopal School. According to Weatherly, "the decision was erroneous as a matter of law because IDEA imposes no obligation on the district to provide related services to a parentally-placed private school student." Furthermore, "...evidence indicated that the district's proportional share allocated for private school students was $3, 639.00 and the cost for the interpreter was over $37,000.00 per year."