Court Dismisses Parent’s Claim That District Should Pay for Private School as Accommodation for Daughter’s Concussion

A federal judge from the District of Massachusetts has granted summary judgment to a school district and affirmed an administrative decision by the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals (BSEA) that the school district does not have to reimburse the parents of a student-athlete, who suffered a concussion and struggled in public school thereafter, for a private school education.   In ruling for the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District, the judge agreed with the hearing officer