Lehigh University's College of Education

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KIMBERLY A. CAPUTO, ESQ. is Assistant General Counsel for the Philadelphia school District. Since 1999, she has been responsible for handling all aspects of administrative due process involving students with disabilities under IDEA and Section 504. Ms. Caputo has successfully represented the Philadelphia school District in hundreds of matters involving identification, programming, discipline, placement (private tuition and residential), and transition services. As part of her practice Ms. Caputo has developed extensive interagency expertise in the areas of behavioral health, mental retardation and autism.

In addition to representing the District, her practice also involves providing extensive training to District administrative and field staff on IDEA issues and developments in the law. Ms. Caputo has been a frequently invited speaker on IDEA issues at University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia and suburban parent advocacy groups, the Family Court Division of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas members of the dependent and delinquent bench and child advocates, and school administrators throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She has authored numerous articles on IDEA issues including “Student Discipline-Regular Education & Special Education Suspensions and Expulsions”, 2006 and “Student Rights: Harassment, Expulsion and Suspensions”, 2003.

Ms. Caputo received her law degree from Temple University in 1989 and her undergraduate degree in English literature from Muhlenberg college in 1986