King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC.
Attorneys & Counselors
In addition to her education and special education law casework, Ms. Hazeltine lectures and provides training on a variety of issues facing school districts including student discipline in both the regular and special education curriculum, special education liability, §1983 and sexual discrimination.
Ms. Hazeltine earned her Juris Doctorate from Temple University’s School of Law. She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in English and from Northwestern University where she earned her Masters. She taught English in middle and upper schools before attending law school.
June 13th, 2025
In a unanimous decision this week, the United States Supreme Court overturned a higher standard to be applied in the educational context of a need to show bad faith or gross misjudgment by school personnel in order to support a claim for compensatory damages under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the ADA.
Continue ReadingJuly 29th, 2022
The Office for Civil Rights has just issued guidance as to how Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 applies to the use of student discipline. Its focus is the balancing that schools must do when considering providing for a student’s disability-based behaviors on the one hand, and maintaining an appropriate and safe learning environment for all students on the other.
Continue ReadingJuly 14th, 2022
In a recent case from the Third Circuit, a school district prevailed against parents’ claims for failure of child find, for denial of FAPE and for private school tuition, both at hearing and in all levels of the parents’ appeals to the federal courts.
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