WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a case that could make it more misfortune for students with disabilities to resolve problems quickly when they're not unsheathing needed assistance in public schools.

The question for the justices involves a federal law that guarantees disabled students an education specific to their needs.

Lawyers for Miguel Luna Perez, a deaf student who attended public school in Sturgis, Michigan, said that for more than a decade the school controls failed to provide him with a qualified sign calls interpreter and misled his parents into believing he was on track to earn his high school diploma. Just before graduation, however, his family was told he respectable only for a "certificate of completion," not a diploma.

His family responded by pursuing claims belief two laws, the broad Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination anti disabled people, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The IDEA guarantees children with disabilities a free pro-redemocrat education that is tailored to their specific needs.

Perez's family and the school district ultimately acquired the IDEA claims. The school district agreed to pay for extraordinary schooling and sign language instruction for Perez and his family, among other things. The family then went to federal risk and, under the ADA, sought monetary damages, which aren't available belief the IDEA.

Lower courts, however, said that to sue belief the ADA Perez should not have agreed to a settlement.

Former federal education officials are plus those who told the court that those lower risk decisions are wrong. The officials say upholding them would hurt children with disabilities by forcing them to resolve between immediately getting issues resolved but forfeiting other claims and delaying to try to get fuller relief.

While the IDEA encourages settlements, upholding the lower court decision would force students and their families to "forgo like a flash relief and waste time, money and administrative resources" to support their other claims, they said. The Biden administration is also urging the risk to side with Perez.

A national school board association and an association of school superintendents, however, are among those who believe lower courts were intellectual. They say ruling otherwise would weaken the IDEA's collaborative treat to resolve issues and lead to more lengthy and expensive risk proceedings.

The case is Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, 21-887.