California Special Education Law

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2014 Hearing Decision Statistics

January 31, 2015

A total of 88 special education disputes were heard by California’s Office of Administrative Hearings in 2014. The following tables show the outcomes of those hearings sorted by:

  • Prevailing Party
  • Administrative Law Judges by Prevailing Party
  • Prevailing Party by Student’s Representation

Hearing Decisions by Prevailing Party

This table shows the number hearing decisions sorted by prevailing party followed by its percentage of the total number of hearing decisions.

Student Prevailed 13 15%
Split Decision 32 36%
LEA* Prevailed 42 48%
NA 1 1%
Total 88 100%

Hearing Decisions by Administrative Law Judges

This table shows the decisions by name of administrative law judges (ALJs) and the number of decisions showing which party prevailed.

Administrative Law Judge LEA* Prevailed Split Decision Student Prevailed NA
Adeniyi A. Ayoade 1
Adrienne L. Krikorian 1
Alexa J. Hohensee 2 1
Charles Marson 1 2 1
Clifford H. Woosley 2 2
Darrell Lepkowsky 1 2
Deidre L. Johnson 4
Eileen M. Cohn 1 1
Elsa H. Jones 3
Joy Redmon 1 2 1
Judith Pasewark 3 2
June R. Lehman 2 1
Kara K. Hatfield 4
Laurie Gorsline 2 1
Margaret Broussard 5 1 1 1
Marian H. Tully 1 1
Paul H. Kamaroff 2 3 2
Peter Paul Castillo 2 2
Rebecca Freie 2 1 1
Robert F. Helfand 3
Robert G. Martin 1 1 1
Sabrina Kong 2 2
Stella L. Owens-Murrell 1 1
Susan Ruff 1 2 1
Theresa Ravandi 3
42 32 13 1

Hearing Decisions by Student’s Representation

This table shows the hearing decisions sorted by prevailing party and the student’s representation.

Student’s Representation Attorney Advocate Parent None Totals
LEA* Prevailed 16 3 18 5 42
Split Decision 23 2 7 0 32
Student Prevailed 11 0 2 0 13
NA 1 0 0 0 1
Total 51 5 27 5 88

*Refers to any Local Education Agency (LEA) such as a school district, County Office of Education, County Mental Health, Charter School, etc.