Quoted: But Julie Mead, who researches legal issues related to special education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says there’s a potential problem with these lawsuits.
“Students with disabilities require programming that is special. That’s the whole point — ‘special’ education,” she says. In other words, for the very reason that each of these students is different, and needs different services, it may be harder to get courts to recognize them as a class, Mead says. She notes that, ever since a 2011 Supreme Court decision, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, certifying a class for a class action suit has gotten more complicated.