Recently, I’ve spotted a new trend at impartial hearings: The Department of Education (DOE) seems to have only one litigation strategy.
Read MoreIn February, I wrote an article about the City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, known as OATH, taking over impartial hearings — and about all of the anxiety people have been feeling around it. This past week, I was lucky enough to get coffee and touch base with an attorney who recently took a position as an OATH hearing officer, one of the first special education hearing officers from the OATH office.
Read MoreAs many of you have already discovered, I was recently out of the office for a week, having taken my first truly unplugged vacation since we opened our doors.
Read MoreIn my previous post, I talked about superintendent’s suspensions (5 days or more) and your child’s right to a hearing. Once you obtain a hearing, you’re going to have to choose a plea.
Read MoreLast year, we filed a number of complaints to the New York State Department of Education regarding the shortage of impartial hearing officers. We shed light on cases where people have been waiting months into the school year to get before one.
Read MoreAs Bill de Blasio’s administration was turning off the last light in Gracie Mansion, the former mayor pushed through a reform of the tuition reimbursement process. The new configuration transfers the responsibility of impartial hearings to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH).
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