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    <title>Call to Action on IDEA Fairness Restoration Act</title>
    <author>ShellyBear</author>
    <article_url>http://www.contribune.org/articles/71</article_url>
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    <created_at>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:12:23 -0400</created_at>
    <image_url>http://www.contribune.org/assets/articles/photo/71/small/phone.dad.cr.jpg</image_url>
    <synopsis>A Pennsylvania a mother was forced to go to due process to implement the Independent Educational Evaluation recommendations for her child with severe dyslexia and a written expression disorder.   She had to borrow $1,400 to pay the evaluator to testify, and for two days of cross-examination by the school district.  The parent prevailed and the child received the reading instruction he needed. Before the Supreme Court&#8217;s Murphy decision, the mother could recover her expert fees; after Murphy, she would not.</synopsis>
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