Special School District No. 1 v. R.M.M. Ex Rel. O.M.

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

This case is about the provision of special education services to a young child attending a nonpublic school. Federal law grants this child neither an individual right to a free appropriate public education nor the right to dispute the provision of special education services in a due process hearing. The question before us is whether Minnesota state law grants either of these rights. After careful analysis, we determine that state law does grant these rights, and thus we affirm the district court. 2

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R.M.M. was a young student who voluntarily attended a Catholic private…