Brookhart v. Illinois State Board of Education

DECISION AND ORDER

ROBERT D. MORGAN, Chief Judge.

This case is proceeding 1 as a judicial review under § 1415(e)(2) of Title 20, United States Code, of an Administrative Order 2 issued May 8, 1981, over the signature of Donald G. Gill, State Superintendent of Education of Illinois. It involves the propriety of denial of high school diplomas to certain plaintiffs, all of whom were exceptional students in the special curriculum on individual educational plans, because of individual learning disabilities and/or other handicaps. Such denial of diplomas by Peoria School District # 150 to eleven…