California OAH special education order · April 1, 2025
Order Requiring Complete Psychoeducational Report Uploaded to Case Center
OAH Case No. 2025030208 · ALJ Penelope S. Pahl
OAH ordered Corona-Norco to upload a complete copy of its psychoeducational report exhibit after the hearing because the admitted version was missing pages 10 and 12. Parents may object if it differs from their copy.
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Corona-Norco Unified School District v. Student: Corona-Norco Unified may keep a first grader in Sierra Vista's Intensive Intervention Program for 45 more school days. (2025)
Summary
In Corona-Norco's expedited due process case, the District's Exhibit 22 was admitted without objection. This exhibit was the Psychoeducational Case Study, dated November 11, 2024. After the hearing, the ALJ found the exhibit was missing pages 10 and 12. On her own motion, she ordered the District to upload a complete copy by noon on April 2, 2025, to be admitted in place of Exhibit 22. Parents may object by April 3, 2025 if the new document differs from the November 7, 2024 report they received, but they must list the differences and attach their own copy.
Why it matters
Parents should keep the copies of assessment reports they receive from the district, because those copies are the only way to show that a district's later-filed version is different. Parents should also check that every page of each exhibit was actually uploaded.
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Full text of the order
Published text of the OAH order. Page headers and numbers from the original PDF have been dropped.
BEFORE THE
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF:
CORONA-NORCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT,
v.
PARENTS ON BEHALF OF STUDENT.
OAH CASE NUMBER 2025030208
ORDER REQUIRING COMPLETE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL
REPORT UPLOADED TO CASE CENTER
APRIL 1, 2025
On March 4, 2025 Corona-Norco Unified School District filed a request for an expedited due process hearing, also called an expedited complaint, with the Office of Administrative Hearings, called OAH, naming Student as respondent. Administrative Law Judge Penelope Pahl heard this matter via videoconference on March 25 and 26, 2025.
During the hearing, Corona-Norco requested that District Exhibit 22, the November 11, 2024 Psychoeducational Case Study, be admitted as evidence in the case.
The document was admitted with no objection. On review, Exhibit 22 is incomplete, as it is missing pages 10 and 12.
Corona-Norco is ordered to upload a complete copy of District’s Exhibit 22 to Case Center as soon as possible, but in no event later than 12 noon, on Wednesday April 2, 2025. The document should be numbered next in order for District’s Exhibits.
The new document will be admitted instead of District’s Exhibit 22. Upon receipt of the complete copy of the Psychoeducational Case Study report District’s Exhibit 22 will be excluded. Both sides will have access to the new exhibit when it is uploaded to Case Center and will see it as an Admitted document in the Admitted Exhibits bundle in Case Center.
Should Student object that the new document uploaded by Corona-Norco is not the same as the November 7, 2024 psychoeducational report Parents received, Parents may file an objection to the document uploaded by Corona Norco, no later than Thursday, April 3, 2025. The document should state why they object to Corona-Norco’s new psychoeducational study report, and note the pages and paragraphs of any differences. If Parents file an objection, they must attach a copy of the complete report they received, and are asserting is different than the new document uploaded by Corona-Norco.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Penelope S. Pahl Administrative Law Judge Office of Administrative Hearings