PENNSYLVANIA
SPECIAL EDUCATION HEARING OFFICER
6205/05-06 LS
File Number
L.B.
Child’s Name
Xx/xx/xx
Date of Birth
March 13, 14 and 23, 2006
Dates of Hearing
Closed
Type of Hearing
For the Student: Parent(s)
Vivian Narehood, Esq. Gibbel, Kraybill & Hess 41 East Orange Street Lancaster, PA 17602
For the Wyomissing Area School District:
Karen Zerr
Director of Special Education Wyomissing Area School District 630 Evans Avenue
Wyomissing, PA 19610-2636
Andrew E. Faust, Esq.
Sweet, Stevens, Tucker & Katz 331 Butler Avenue
P.O. Box 5069
New Britain, PA 18901-5069
Dates of Hearing: March 13, 14 and 23, 2006
Receipt of Written Closing Statements: April 17, 2006
Date Record Closed: April 17, 2006
Date of Decision: May 2, 2006
Hearing Officer: Daniel J. Myers
BACKGROUND
Student (Student) is a [preteenaged] child with autism residing in the Wyomissing Area School District (School District.) His parents reject the School District’s most recently proposed December 2005 individualized education program (IEP), and they contend that the School District has inappropriately implemented Student’s IEPs for the last two school years.
ISSUES
Whether or not the School District’s most recently proposed December 2005 IEP is appropriate?
Whether or not the School District has denied a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) to Student IEPs since September, 2004?
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