Copeland v. District of Columbia

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge

Donna Copeland has brought suit under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act alleging that the District of Columbia Public Schools (“DCPS”) denied her minor son D.C. a free and appropriate public education (“FAPE”) by failing to assign him to any school at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year and eventually placing him in a school that could not meet his educational needs. The hearing officer who adjudicated Copeland’s due process complaint at the administrative level found that DCPS denied D.C. a FAPE by…