Opinion ID: 6323841
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Heading: IDEA Statutory Scheme

Text: Congress enacted the IDEA “to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a [FAPE].” Y.B. v. Howell Twp. Bd. of Educ., 4 F.4th 196, 198 (3d Cir 2021) (quoting 20 U.S.C. § 1400(d)(1)(A)). “‘The IDEA offers federal funds to States in exchange for a commitment[ ] to furnish’ a FAPE ‘to all children with certain physical or intellectual disabilities.’” Id. (quoting Fry v. Napoleon Cmty. Schs., 137 S. Ct. 743, 748 (2017)) (alteration in original). The IDEA directs States to “implement specified procedural safeguards to ensure children with disabilities and their parents are provided with due process.” Batchelor, 759 F.3d at 272. “These safeguards, known collectively as the IDEA’s administrative process, provide parents with an avenue to file a complaint and to participate in an impartial due process hearing” addressing, among other things, “the provision of a [FAPE] to [their] child.” Id. (quoting 20 U.S.C. § 1415(b)(6)(A)). “Following completion of the IDEA’s administrative process . . . the IDEA affords ‘[a]ny party aggrieved by the findings and decisions’ made during or pursuant to the impartial due process hearing an opportunity for judicial review.” Id. (quoting § 1415(i)(2)(A)) (alteration in original). Accordingly, “the IDEA ‘confers upon disabled students an enforceable substantive right to public education in participating States.’” Y.B., F.4th at 198 (quoting Honig v. Doe, 484 U.S. 305, 310 (1988)).