Petitioner’s willful failure to comply with the Court’s Order directing the student to attend three transition periods to assist in his transition back into the least restrictive environment resulted in dismissal of Petitioner’s Due Process Complaint.
Failure to comply with court order resulted in case dismissal. Read More
Petitioner, a severely disabled eleven-year-old on immunosuppressive medication, argued that attending public school would be hazardous to his health because of his compromised immune system. However, the School District demonstrated that the school where Petitioner would attend had a small student population and a highly-trained staff committed to proper infection control precautions and was thus
As an educator, Petitioner was required by Georgia law to report suspected child abuse to her supervisors “no later than 24 hours from the time there is reasonable cause to believe a child has been abused.” However, after one of her students described an incident of possible sexual abuse to her, Petitioner did not report
The Department of Transportation correctly instructed the Petitioner to remove illegal signs that were erected without lawful permits after they repaired signs that were destroyed by a tornado without the Department’s authorization.
Destroyed signs cannot be repaired without prior authorization. Read More
Petitioner waived or abandoned her right to contest the proposed sanction to her teaching certificate when she failed to file a required pleading, failed to appear at the hearing, and failed to participate in the proceeding. Accordingly, the matter was dismissed.
Failure to appear resulted in case dismissal. Read More
An educator’s innocent mention of the subject matter of a question on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test to her colleague, who had already finished administering the test, was insufficient to justify the one-year suspension of the educator’s teaching certificate proposed.
One-year suspension too harsh a penalty for excited utterance regarding the CRCT. Read More
