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Analysis of Due Process and Mediation
- Expanded Version
Manhattan Beach Unified School District - As of: July 7,
2001
[The
chart entitled “Due Process/Mediation-Expanded Version” is a compilation of
records found on the SEHO due process database through August 15, 2000, as well
as data referenced in MBUSD’s Consent Calendars for cases active during the
1998-1999, 1999-2000 school years through 06/30/00 and continuing into the
2000-2001 school year. The
information provided below summarizes the chart data.
Please note that SEHO records are maintained by calendar year, while
MBUSD records are kept by school year. Also
note that MBUSD’s Consent Calendars make reference to several cases for which
SEHO case numbers were not referenced. As
we do not know the opening dates for these cases, they have been placed at the
end of the chart. These entries may
relate to SEHO cases referenced with a SEHO #].
Background
Data
According
to SEHO’s due process index, cases
were filed against MBUSD as follows:
1995
- 1 case
1996
- 4 cases
1997
- 8 cases
1998
- 4 cases
1999
- 21 cases
2000
- 13 cases [as of 08/15/00]
Total
cases filed with SEHO from 1995 to the
present [10/03/00] - 52 cases
According
to MBUSD Consent Calendars active
cases during our review were commenced in the following years:
1996
- 1 case
1997
- 1 case
1998
- 4 cases
1999
- 21 cases
2000
- 13 cases
No
year indicated - 8 cases
Total
case entries in Consent Calendars - 48
cases
Total
cases currently open with SEHO [as of
10/03/00]: 17
Of
the seventeen (17) cases MBUSD presently has open, ten (10) were filed in 2000.
In addition to any education or legal costs the district pays on behalf
of students and their parents, the district will also incur its own legal fees.
[Note:
To see how cases filed in 2000 compares with those filed in 1999, as of 04/30/99
only 8 new cases had been filed against MBUSD, yet by the end of 1999, there was
a total of 21 open cases against the district. As the current filings against
MBUSD for the year 2000 totaled 9 cases as of 04/30/00, last year’s filings
had already been surpassed by this year’s filings.
Only 1/3 of the year 2000 had elapsed, yet the district was already
almost ½ way to the total number of cases filed in 1999.
As of 10/03/00, the district has had 13 cases filed against it in this
year alone.]
A
total of 15 cases reflected on the attached “Due Process/Mediation” chart
have generated educational and/or legal costs for which MBUSD is responsible:
1
case was filed in 1997 - 97-0535
2
cases were filed in 1998 - 98-0873, 98-1767
5
cases were filed in 1999 - 99-0115, 99-0356, 99-0475, 99-0535, 99-0755
2
cases were filed in 2000 - 00-0174, 00-0683
6
entries which have generated ed and/or legal costs have unknown file dates
because the Co | 
