A hearing officer in Autauga County Board of Education found that a school district’s immediate placement of a disabled elementary school student within an Interim Alternative Educational Setting (“IAES”) violated the Least Restrictive Environment (“LRE”). The hearing officer found that school team’s placement of the student within the IAES, without notice or the Parents’ input and without attempting to modify the student’s behaviors in a lesser restrictive setting first by conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment (“FBA”) or implementing a Behavior Intervention Plan (“BIP”) was a violation of law.
August 2022
