Student wins battle for spot in Montgomery classroom

Published June 29, 2009 4:00am ET



Montgomery County schools relaxed a two-year stance on Monday that kept a 14-year-old North Bethesda resident from receiving a free public education and forced him to tutor himself at a library.

Jeff Sukkasem’s plight was first revealed in an April article in The Examiner, in which he and Rockville lawyer Pat Hoover described their legal battle with Montgomery County Public Schools.

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