Greve v. Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 27

In this proceeding pursuant to article 78 of the CPLR, the petitioner seeks a judgment directing the respondent Board of Education to furnish to Michael Greve, a student of St. Thomas the Apostle parochial school, the same services it provides to certain students at its public schools.

Michael Greve, age six, a resident of Union Free School District No. 27 of Nassau County, is handicapped by severe deafness. Following several years of attendance at a nonpublic school for the deaf, Michael entered the kindergarten class of the respondent’s schools in September, 1971, remaining there until June…