ISBE due-process decision · FY 2016
Illinois due-process decision 2015-0383: district prevailed
The parent challenged the district's transfer of the student from one therapeutic day school to another. The hearing officer found the move was a change of facility, not placement, that the new school could implement the IEP, and ordered a gradual transition.
Filed by
The parent
Issues in dispute
Placement/LREProcedural/parent-participation
Relief ordered
Parent to sign transfer releases; student stays through ESY, then gradual transition of at least three months.
From the decision
this was a change in facility and not a change in placement
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