Swain v. State Board of Education

The issue involved in this appeal is whether this court should set aside the decision of the defendant State board of education not to order the original assignment of the plaintiffs’ child to a publicly supported preschool special education program in the face of the determination of the Barrington School Board not to place the child.

On September 21, 1974, plaintiffs filed a request with the Barrington School Board that their then three-year-old child be assigned to a special preschool program for handicapped children. The local school board denied this request on January 21, 1975, primarily…