Berg v. Florida Department of Labor & Employment Security, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

A deaf student appeals a magistrate judge’s decision, following a bench trial, that a state vocational rehabilitation program’s refusal to fund the student’s legal education does not constitute discrimination on the basis of the student’s disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq. (1994). We affirm.

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In 1991, August Berg, a profoundly deaf Florida resident, applied to the Florida Divi*1253sion of Vocational Rehabilitation (the “DVR”), a state agency that helps persons with disabilities obtain or retain employment, for funding to complete his…