ISBE due-process decision · FY 2025
Illinois due-process decision 2024-0219: split decision
Seeking a mutually agreeable therapeutic day school, the parents challenged how the district was locating a private day school. The hearing officer found FAPE denials for excluding private schools, not specifying a school and ignoring travel time, but rejected the commute-tolerance claim and mutual-agreement request.
Filed by
The parent
Issues in dispute
Placement/LREProcedural/parent-participationFAPE denial
Relief ordered
IEP meeting; locate within 45 school days a private day school able to implement the IEP, ideally within one hour's travel; document the search.
From the decision
The District is ordered to locate a private day school within 45 school days... which can implement the Student's May 9, 2024 IEP
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