{"id":89,"date":"2008-08-22T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-08-22T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T14:10:34","slug":"mps-ordered-to-pay-450000-in-legal-fees-in-special-ed-class-action-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/mps-ordered-to-pay-450000-in-legal-fees-in-special-ed-class-action-case\/","title":{"rendered":"MPS ordered to pay $450,000 in legal fees in special ed class action case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"MPS%20ordered%20to%20pay%20%24450%2C000%20in%20legal%20fees%20in%20special%20ed%20class%20action%20case\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Milwaukee Public Schools must pay just more than $450,000 to the legal staff representing plaintiffs in a class-action suit over how the district serves students with special needs, a federal judge has ordered.<\/p>\n<p>The order Friday followed a ruling in June that MPS must do more for special needs students, including assessments for children who might need services and interventions for students who have a high number of suspensions and for those who have failed a grade.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the most recent order in the continuing saga (beginning in 2001) of MPS and its &#8220;denial of entry or delayed entry or participation in the process&#8230;&#8221; of those students eligible for special education services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/art\/wi.jamie.mps.wdpi.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Read more about Jamie S. v. MPS:<\/span><\/a> the chronology of this class action case, the history of MPS&#8217;s failure to comply with IDEA, and the remedies and sanctions ordered by Judge Goodstein. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/law\/art\/wi.jamie.mps.wdpi.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Case Updates<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Major concerns were expressed in the case about students being suspended rather than evaluated and identified as eligible for special ed services.  MPS says they have improved, although a report for the last school year indicates MPS may have the highest suspension rates in the country. Do we know how many of these were students needing services?<\/p>\n<p>The Journal Sentinel has been closely following this case. &#8220;Still ahead is a trial in November on issues such as whether MPS might be required to provide compensatory damages to anyone who was denied adequate special education in 2000, the starting point for the lawsuit.&#8221; Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Milwaukee Public Schools must pay just more than $450,000 to the legal staff representing plaintiffs in a class-action suit over how the district serves <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/mps-ordered-to-pay-450000-in-legal-fees-in-special-ed-class-action-case\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5,7],"tags":[1316,170,1309,1293,1295,34,171],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eligibility","category-idea-2004","category-legal-news","tag-child-find","tag-eligibilty","tag-fape","tag-idea-2004","tag-legal-news","tag-rights","tag-special-education-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}