A strongly worded opinion by a federal appeals panel has upheld an order requiring the Atlanta Public Schools to pay for a young man’s private school tuition.
U.S. District Senior Judge Marvin H. Shoob had ordered the Atlanta Public Schools to pay Jarron Draper’s tuition at The Cottage School in Roswell until June 2011 or until he receives a high school diploma, whichever is earlier, at a cost of up to $38,000 per year. The judge had adopted an administrative law judge’s findings that the school system had misdiagnosed Draper as mentally retarded and for years put him in classes for the mentally disabled despite his exhibiting classic signs of dyslexia.
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