California OAH special education order · April 2, 2025
Order to Comply With Instructions in Original Order to Upload Complete Psychoeducational Report and to Restore the Original Version of District's Exhibit 22
OAH Case No. 2025030208 · ALJ Penelope S. Pahl
OAH ordered Corona-Norco to restore an admitted exhibit it deleted without permission and to upload the complete psychoeducational report as a new exhibit, warning that sanctions, including exclusion of the exhibit, could follow.
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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
On April 1, 2025, OAH ordered Corona-Norco to upload a complete copy of its Exhibit 22, a psychoeducational case study missing pages 10 and 12, as its next exhibit in order. Instead, the District deleted the admitted Exhibit 22 from OAH's evidence program, Case Center, and replaced it with a different document, without permission. On its own motion, OAH ordered the District to immediately restore the original Exhibit 22 and upload the complete report as Exhibit 42 by noon on April 3, 2025, or face possible sanctions, including exclusion of the exhibit. Parents may object by 3:00 PM on April 4, 2025 if the uploaded report differs from the November 7, 2024 report they received, and must list the differences by page and paragraph.
Why it matters
A party may not remove or swap an admitted exhibit without the ALJ's permission. Parents should compare any replacement report against the version they actually received and use the objection process to flag differences.
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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 TO COMPLY WITH INSTRUCTIONS IN ORIGINAL ORDER
TO UPLOAD COMPLETE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL REPORT AND TO
RESTORE THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF DISTRICT’S EXHIBIT 22
APRIL 2, 2025
On April 1, 2025, the undersigned issued an order requiring Corona-Norco to upload a complete copy of District’s Exhibit 22, titled, Psychoeducational Case Study, dated November 11, 2024. The copy originally uploaded to OAH’s evidence program, Case Center, was missing pages 10 and 12. Corona-Norco was given explicit instructions in the April 1, 2025 Order regarding how to remedy their failure to upload a complete copy of the exhibit.
On April 2, 2025, Corona-Norco failed to follow those instructions, which asked that the complete report be uploaded as District’s next exhibit in order. Instead, Corona-Norco deleted an admitted exhibit, and replaced it with a different document.
At no time was Corona-Norco given permission to remove an admitted exhibit from the record.
Corona-Norco is hereby ordered to immediately restore the original version of its Exhibit 22 to Case Center. Corona-Norco must then follow the instructions requiring that the complete version of the report be uploaded to Case Center as the next District Exhibit in order, which should be Exhibit 42. If this process is not completed by April 3, 2025 at 12:00 noon, Corona-Norco may be subject to sanctions including exclusion of the exhibit.
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 as instructed in the original April 1, 2025 order. The deadline for filing the objection will be the same as the deadline for the closing brief: 3:00 PM Friday April 4, 2025. Any objection shall include a copy of the report Parents received and include a list of any differences between the report they received and the report Corona Norco uploads, with page and paragraph references, as originally ordered on April 1, 2025.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Penelope S. Pahl Administrative Law Judge Office of Administrative Hearings