ISBE due-process decision · FY 2017
Illinois due-process decision 2017-0292: parent prevailed
In an expedited hearing, the district sought to move the student to a therapeutic day school as an interim setting due to aggressive behaviors. The hearing officer found the district failed to prove any proposed setting could implement the IEP and denied the request.
Outcome: Parent prevailedDisability: AutismHearing officer: Janet Maxwell-WickettFull decision (PDF, ISBE)
Filed by
The school district
Issues in dispute
Behavior/discipline/manifestationPlacement/LRE
Relief ordered
None; district's request for interim therapeutic day school placement denied, so current placement maintained.
From the decision
The District's requested relief to change the Student's placement... a therapeutic day school, for not more than 45 school days is denied.
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