Special Education Law MCP Connector

What it does

This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server gives AI assistants read-only access to the public corpus of special education administrative decisions published at specialedlaw.com. The currently indexed corpus is the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals (BSEA). Every record is a public, already-published decision or ruling, and each tool result includes the public source URL for citation. The connector never creates, updates, deletes, sends, or publishes anything.

Connecting

The server is a remote, streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint. It is free and requires no sign-in or API key.

In Claude, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL above, and connect. The tools then become available in your conversations. The same URL works in any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, MCP Inspector, and others).

Tools

All 9 tools are read-only and annotated as such. They never modify data.

• search_special_education_decisionsFull-text or multi-term fact-pattern search across public BSEA decisions and rulings, with filters for type, outcome, adjudicator, district, and date range, plus pagination and larger filtered exports.
• get_special_education_decisionRetrieve the full public text and citation URL of one decision or ruling by its BSEA number.
• get_special_education_statisticsCorpus-level counts by document type, outcome, adjudicator, and school district.
• list_adjudicatorsList the hearing officers in the corpus with case counts and current/former status.
• list_school_districtsList the school districts in the corpus with case counts and outcome breakdowns.
• get_decision_citation_networkSee which decisions cite a given decision and which decisions it cites.
• analyze_adjudicatorAnalyze a hearing officer’s public decision record, outcomes, and most-frequent districts.
• analyze_issue_trendsTrack how often issue keywords appear across decisions over time.
• lookup_agency_procedure_rulesLook up BSEA hearing rules, standing orders, and procedures by topic or rule number.

Example prompts

• Search the Massachusetts BSEA decisions for cases about extended school year (ESY) services for a student with autism where the parents prevailed, and summarize the reasoning.
• I represent a family against a Massachusetts district on a unilateral private placement / tuition reimbursement claim involving a reading disability. Find the most relevant BSEA precedent and group it into favorable and unfavorable cases.
• What is hearing officer Lindsay’s track record on residential placement disputes — how many decisions, what outcomes, and which school districts appear most often?
• Look up the BSEA hearing rule on postponements and tell me the timeline and standard.
• Compare BSEA decisions 2024-00123 and 2023-04567 — are they from the same hearing officer or district, and how did the outcomes differ?

Data, privacy & security

The connector reads only the public decision corpus. It does not access your Claude memory, chat history, or uploaded files, and it collects no conversation data. Requests are rate-limited and the search text you send may be logged in aggregate to operate and improve the service. See our Privacy Policy for details on what we collect and how long we keep it.

Not legal advice

This connector is a legal-research tool over public records. Its results are not legal advice and do not create an attorney-client relationship. Verify every citation against the linked public source before relying on it.

Support

Questions, issues, or security concerns? Contact us at info@perlmanlegal.com. We maintain the connector and respond to reported issues.