OAH Special Education Decisions Involving Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

17 decisions: student prevailed on all issues in 2, split in 4, district prevailed on all issues in 11.

Search and filter these decisions · 56 OAH orders involving Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

• June 23, 2023 · OAH Case No. 2023030716 · ALJ Rommel P. CruzSanta Monica-Malibu Unified School District v. StudentSanta Monica-Malibu Unified proves its psychoeducational assessment was appropriate and need not fund a neuropsychological IEE.
  District prevailed on all issues
• February 18, 2020 · OAH Case No. 2019090404 · ALJ Deborah Myers-CregarStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified must fund two years of Pivotal Response Training after an aide used aversive techniques on a student
  Split decision: student prevailed on 1 of 2 issuesVanaman German LLP represented the student
• October 29, 2019 · OAH Case No. 2019040158 · ALJ Tara DossStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (consolidated)Santa Monica-Malibu Unified prevails on all claims; fifth grader with ADHD and mood disorder properly found ineligible for special education.
  District prevailed on all issues
• November 30, 2018 · OAH Case No. 2018050306 · ALJ Judith L. PasewarkStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified must fund a student's Utah residential treatment placement and repay travel costs after denying a FAPE.
  Student prevailed on all issuesVanaman German LLP represented the student
• July 27, 2018 · OAH Case No. 2017110028 · ALJ Tara DossStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified prevails on all claims over four IEPs; no reimbursement for private Arete Academy placement.
  District prevailed on all issues
• July 20, 2018 · OAH Case No. 2018020479 · ALJ Kara HatfieldStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified's reading services for a student with severe dyslexia offered a FAPE; private school reimbursement denied.
  District prevailed on all issuesVanaman German LLP represented the student
• March 21, 2018 · OAH Case No. 2017080121 · ALJ Adrienne L. KrikorianStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified's nonpublic school offer at Beach Cities was appropriate; parents denied reimbursement for private school.
  District prevailed on all issuesVanaman German LLP represented the student
• July 15, 2015 · OAH Case No. 2015040382 · ALJ Caroline A. ZukStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified had to respond to an unenrolled adult student's IEP requests; claims about implementing his old IEP were dismissed.
  Student prevailed in part
• November 24, 2014 · OAH Case No. 2014100025 · ALJ Kara HatfieldSanta Monica-Malibu Unified School District v. StudentSanta Monica-Malibu Unified may place a tenth grader at Linden Center nonpublic school without parental consent.
  District prevailed on all issues
• June 2, 2014 · OAH Case No. 2013051091 · ALJ Elsa H. JonesStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified offered FAPE in three high school IEPs; no reimbursement owed for private Westview School placement.
  District prevailed on all issuesVanaman German LLP represented the student
• December 23, 2013 · OAH Case No. 2013051152 · ALJ Eileen M. CohnStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (consolidated)Santa Monica-Malibu Unified must reimburse Summit View tuition, tutoring and mileage; district's assessment upheld and IEE denied.
  Split decision: student prevailed on 6 of 18 issues (2 in part)
• July 27, 2012 · OAH Case No. 2011091066 · ALJ Carla L. GarrettStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (consolidated)Santa Monica-Malibu Unified prevails on all issues; its autism-focused class at Grant Elementary with a full-day aide offered FAPE.
  District prevailed on all issues
• March 6, 2012 · OAH Case No. 2011090122 · ALJ Deborah Myers-CregarStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (consolidated)Santa Monica-Malibu Unified's assessments and preschool offers upheld; IEE and private preschool reimbursement denied on every issue.
  District prevailed on all issues
• January 20, 2012 · OAH Case No. 2011070262 · ALJ Glynda B. GomezStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified offered a deaf student FAPE in the LRE; parents' reimbursement claim for Westview School denied.
  District prevailed on all issuesVanaman German LLP represented the student
• November 24, 2009 · OAH Case No. 2009071020 · ALJ Elsa H. JonesSanta Monica-Malibu Unified School District v. StudentSanta Monica-Malibu Unified failed to prove its psychoeducational assessment was appropriate, so the student gets an IEE at public expense.
  Student prevailed on all issues
• November 13, 2007 · OAH Case No. 2007050008 · ALJ Debra R. HustonSanta Monica–Malibu Unified School District v. StudentSanta Monica–Malibu Unified's December 2006 triennial assessments held appropriate; the district need not fund a parent-requested independent evaluation.
  District prevailed on all issuesVanaman German LLP represented the student
• March 2, 2007 · OAH Case No. 2006060902 · ALJ Richard T. BreenStudent v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictSanta Monica-Malibu Unified must reimburse $2,150 for an IEE; student with ADHD found not eligible for special education.
  Split decision: student prevailed on 1 of 3 issues