HeyJaredThe Practical College Guide
Education lawyer. I write about the college systems most families don't encounter until something goes wrong: student discipline, Title IX, Section 504, Title VI, academic integrity, and disability accommodations. Based in Pittsburgh.
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What a winning discipline appeal actually looks like (opens the original)
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By the time a campus disciplinary decision arrives, a family may have spent months waiting for it. They have read the statements, gone over the messages, and helped their student prepare. Now there is a finding of responsibility, a sanction, and a deadline to appeal.The parent wants to challenge everything. The student may want to close the laptop and never discuss it again.Somewhere in that conversation comes the question: Do students ever actually win these?Yes. I have won campus appeals. When
Why Your Student’s IEP Does Not Follow Them to College, and What Does (opens the original)
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Move-in is happening this week and next on most campuses, and at some schools classes have already started. Somewhere in the boxes is probably a folder with your student’s IEP or 504 plan.For years, that document mattered. Teachers had it. The school knew what it was supposed to provide. Your student did not have to start from scratch every August and explain why they needed extended time, breaks, help with attendance, or whatever else was in the plan.College is different. An IEP or 504 plan fro
School discrimination complaints: the state offices most families never find (opens the original)
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Families dealing with discrimination at school usually know about one complaint process. States run their own, several are expanding them, and most parents have never heard of the offices that could help.A parent spends an evening at the kitchen table researching how to file a discrimination complaint on behalf of her son. Every article she finds seems to describe the same path: a federal complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. She starts the online form, then fi
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