If your child is set to be suspended for a period of longer than five days, it’s called a superintendent's suspension. By law, your student has some due process rights. I recently got a call from a mother whose daughter was accused of shoving someone to the ground. The girl was sent home, and her parents were told the school was seeking a 30 to 60 day superintendent's suspension.
Read MoreBack in July, I wrote about a case prior to its going to the Office of State Review. Through the twists and turns of the process, the State Review Officer (“SRO”) reduced our complex appeal to a single question: We were, in essence, asked to prove that remote, video educational programming was equal in quality to live classroom instruction.
Read MoreWhat can anyone say about truly great art — that is, about masterpieces in general?
I think that every great work of art leaves you with the sense that its creator has somehow distilled a vast, complex subject into a simple-yet-profound truth that cannot be expressed in ordinary language.
Read MoreThe implications of the pandemic are still winding their way through the federal courts. Judging from the results of this past year — in which we successfully defended our undefeated status — it seems that the panic of coronavirus has not been as impactful on the special education community as we thought.
Read MoreIf a party is aggrieved with the outcome of an impartial hearing, they have the right to file an appeal to the New York State Education Department; the responsible office is called the Office of State Review.
Read MoreApril is always my busy month for hearings. Everybody hopes that their case is going to settle in the fall, and a lot of them do. Come February and March, schools start talking about down payments on the next year's tuition.
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