In re Roger S.

RAKER, Judge.

We are asked in this case to determine whether the District Court of Maryland in Montgomery County, sitting as the juvenile court,1 had the authority to commit a child to the Montgomery County Board of Education and order the public schools to provide post-secondary transitional services to the child until twenty-one years of age. We shall hold that this order exceeded the court’s authority under the Juvenile Causes Act, Maryland Code (1974, 1989 Repl.Vol., 1993 Cum.Supp.) §§ 3-801 to 3-837 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article (“CJ”).

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Appellee Roger S. suffers from a…