In the most recent batch of posted SRO decisions, SRO Paul Kelly continued his extraordinarily harsh treatment of parents and kids and his disrespect for hearing officers, by reversing every IHO reimbursement decision favorable to parents.
SRO 08-018: Kelly jumped through hoops to reverse a hearing officer’s award of reimbursement to a parent for a private school placement.
SRO 08-029: Kelly reversed IHO award of reimbursement to parent finding that district program was appropriate, that Kildonan was "inappropriately restrictive"(i.e. kid did not need residential) and that Kildonan did not address the child’s social skills deficits.
SRO 08-021: Not surprisingly, Kelly affirmed IHO denial of reimbursement based upon parent failure on prong 2.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Private Placement plus privately provided related service is appropriate
SRO 06-076
The SRO held that the private program offered at Sterling supplemented by speech-language therapy through an independent provider was appropriate to meet the student's needs in the LRE. The SRO has held on other occasions that a private placement was not appropriate for lack of a related service needed by the child despite that the parents were providing it privately.
The SRO held that the private program offered at Sterling supplemented by speech-language therapy through an independent provider was appropriate to meet the student's needs in the LRE. The SRO has held on other occasions that a private placement was not appropriate for lack of a related service needed by the child despite that the parents were providing it privately.
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