J.S. and S.S., on behalf of minor child, A.S. v. Board of Education of West Morris Regional High School, Morris County, 4/24/2023, (#122-23)

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OAL Dkt. No. EDU 02066-22
Agency Dkt. No. 15-2/22
New Jersey Commissioner of Education
Final Decision
J.S. and S.S., on behalf of minor child, A.S.,
Petitioner,
v.
Board of Education of the West Morris
Regional High School District, Morris County,
Respondent.
The record of this matter and the Initial Decision of the Office of Administrative Law
(OAL) have been reviewed, along with petitioners’ exceptions filed in accordance with
N.J.A.C. 1:1-18.4. The Board did not file a reply.1
In this matter, petitioners claim that the Board discriminated against A.S. by failing to
provide door-to-door transportation to and from her out-of-district placement. A.S. is a high
school student who attends Sage Alliance (Sage) due to her special education needs. At the
time her placement began at the start of the 2021-22 school year, the Board secured Cassidy
Transportation (Cassidy) to transport A.S. to and from Sage. As petitioners live on a hazardous,
1 The Commissioner was not provided with a transcript of the October 7, 2022 hearing, which included the limited
testimony of one witness. The parties agreed that the testimony and record in a related special education matter
– J.S. and S.S., on behalf of A.S. v. West Morris Regional Board of Education, EDS 08829-21, Final Decision dated
December 7, 2022 – was duplicative of the record in this matter, and therefore the testimony of all witnesses and
the corresponding exhibits from that matter were incorporated by reference in this matter. The Commissioner
was not provided with a transcript of the hearing or the exhibits from the special education matter.
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steep mountain road, Cassidy determined that it would be unsafe to stop directly in front of
petitioners’ home because it is utilizing a smaller bus rather than a full-sized bus which would
have the ability to safely stop traffic.2 As such, Cassidy picks A.S. up and drops her off at the
municipal building located one-third of a mile from petitioners’ home. Petitioners filed the
instant petition claiming that the Board is discriminating against A.S. based on her disability and
seeking an order requiring the Board to provide door-to-door transportation.
The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) found that petitioners’ claims under the New Jersey
Law Against Discrimination (LAD) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) do not arise
under the New Jersey School Laws and are therefore outside the Commissioner’s jurisdiction
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:6-9.3 The ALJ found, however, that petitioners’ claim under
New Jersey’s Equality and Equity in Education Law, N.J.S.A. 18A:36-20 – which prohibits
discrimination “in admission to, or in obtaining any advantages, privileges or courses of study of
the school by reason of race, color, creed, sex or national origin" – is properly before the
Commissioner. Considering the merits of petitioners’ argument that A.S.’s disability is the
reason that the Board has denied the curb-to-curb transportation service that other general
education students on her road enjoy, the ALJ found that A.S.’s disability is not the proximate
cause of why she is not being picked up in front of her house. Instead, the ALJ found that it is
the hazardous road where petitioners live that prevents the shorter bus from stopping in front
2 The type of vehicle being used to transport A.S. to and from school is unclear. The director of transportation for
Washington Township School District referred to the vehicle as a van but clarified that it was a smaller yellow
school bus, while the transportation supervisor at West Morris Regional High School District testified in the related
special education matter that a seven-passenger minivan is utilized to transport A.S.
3 The ALJ found the Board’s argument that petitioners had failed to exhaust their remedies under the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was moot, because a final decision has been issued in petitioners’ due
process petition.
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of the home; thus, utilizing the municipal building for pick up and drop off is an “unintended
consequence” of A.S.’s placement at Sage.4
In their exceptions, petitioners argue that the ALJ should have addressed their claims
under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (504), the ADA, and the LAD because, according to
petitioners, the Commissioner has concurrent jurisdiction with the Division on Civil Rights over
LAD matters when it involves schools, and the OAL has jurisdiction to hear cases involving
Section 504 and the ADA. Petitioners also argue that the ALJ failed to address the fact that the
Board does not allow child study teams to offer curb-to-curb transportation for people with
mental health or psychiatric disabilities, regardless of their needs, and only offers it if there is a
physical impairment requiring door to door transportation. Petitioners contend that because
there is disparate treatment between children with physical disabilities and children with
mental health or psychiatric disabilities, disability-based discrimination is apparent.
Additionally, petitioners argue that A.S. was treated differently than general education students
who are picked up at their homes on the same hazardous road as A.S.’s house. In support of
their contention, petitioners point out that the Board did not have to use Cassidy to transport
their daughter, as it could have considered other options or transported A.S. on its own using a
larger bus rather than requiring her to walk along a hazardous route or rely on her parents to
drive her to the municipal building.
4 In a related special education matter, petitioners filed a due process petition similarly challenging the Board’s
failure to provide door-to-door transportation for A.S. to Sage and arguing that the lack of door-to-door
transportation violates A.S.’s right to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE). J.S. and S.S., on behalf of A.S.
v. West Morris Regional Board of Education, EDS 08829-21, Final Decision dated December 7, 2022. In a Final
Decision, the ALJ found that there was no medical evidence in the record that A.S. required drop-off and pick-up
immediately outside of her house. As such, the ALJ found that while a bus stop at her home may be preferable,
transportation to and from the municipal building does not rise to the level of a denial of FAPE or a deprivation of
educational benefits.
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Upon review, the Commissioner finds that the Board is not meeting its responsibility to
provide A.S. with appropriate transportation to and from school. Notably, the Board has not
provided persuasive evidence that it is incapable of safely stopping in front of A.S.’s house but
yet it is requiring her to walk along a hazardous road without sidewalks or a shoulder to the
location of her assigned bus stop.
Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 6A:27-1.3(a):
District boards of education shall provide transportation to public
school students who reside remote from their assigned school of
attendance, nonpublic school students who reside remote from
their school of attendance and meet the eligibility criteria
of N.J.A.C. 6A:27-2.2, and students with disabilities who reside
remote from their assigned school or who require transportation
services in accordance with their individualized education
program (IEP).
In this matter, A.S. is a student with a disability who resides remote from her assigned out-of-
district placement, and as such, she is entitled to transportation to and from school. In order
for A.S. to utilize the provided transportation, she must travel one-third of a mile down a steep,
hazardous road to a municipal parking lot because, according to Cassidy, it is unsafe to stop
along such a dangerous route. The Commissioner cannot reconcile why the Board would
accept Cassidy’s representation that the road is so unsafe that a vehicle cannot safely pick up a
student (especially when other buses have previously stopped in front of her house), but at the
same time find it acceptable for a student to walk down the same hazardous road, without a
shoulder or sidewalks, to reach her assigned bus stop. The Commissioner understands that
petitioners have been driving A.S. to the municipal building; while petitioners have been taking
extra efforts to ensure that their child reaches the bus safely, they should not be required to do
so. It is the Board’s responsibility to provide A.S. with transportation under N.J.A.C. 6A:27-
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1.3(a), and her parents should not be burdened with the additional responsibility of driving her
back and forth because the Board has chosen a location that is indisputably unsafe for her to
traverse on her own.
The Commissioner is uncertain why Cassidy transportation cannot effectuate a safe stop
at or near petitioners’ home. It is clear that full-sized school buses routinely stop along
petitioners’ road, and even at their house, while utilizing flashing lights to safely stop. If Cassidy
is providing a shorter yellow school bus as one witness testified, then it is unclear why such a
school bus would not be equipped with flashing lights and a stop sign in order to stop traffic. If,
on the other hand, Cassidy is utilizing a seven-passenger minivan as another witness testified,
then it is unclear why a van cannot pull into petitioners’ driveway, or a safe pull-off location
away from traffic. Notably, the record is devoid of testimony from a representative of Cassidy
to explain its rationale in detail.
Considering the specific circumstances in this matter – including the treacherous route
A.S. would be required to walk to her assigned bus stop and the fact that transportation
vehicles have safely stopped at A.S.’s home in the past – the Commissioner finds that the Board
should provide curb-to-curb transportation to and from A.S.’s out-of-district placement at Sage
beginning in the 2023-24 school year. The Commissioner notes that if the Board is unable to
meet its responsibility while utilizing a short yellow bus or a seven-passenger minivan, it is free
to utilize a large school bus, which has already been determined to be able to safely stop along
petitioners’ road. Given that petitioners’ requested relief of curb-to-curb transportation is
being granted, it is unnecessary for the Commissioner to reach the remaining discrimination
arguments in this case.
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Accordingly, the Initial Decision of the OAL is rejected. The Board is required to provide
A.S. with curb-to-curb transportation to and from Sage beginning in the 2023-24 school year.
IT IS SO ORDERED.5
ACTING COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
Date of Decision:
Date of Mailing:
5 This decision may be appealed to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:6-9.1.
Under N.J.Ct.R. 2:4-1(b), a notice of appeal must be filed with the Appellate Division within 45 days from the date
of mailing of this decision.
April 24, 2023
April 26, 2023
New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity Employer
State of New Jersey
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
INITIAL DECISION
OAL DKT. NO. EDU 02066-22
AGENCY DKT. NO. 15-2/22
J.S. AND S.S. ON BEHALF OF A.S.,
Petitioner,
v.
WEST 	MORRIS 	REGIONAL 	HIGH
SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION,
Respondent.
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David R. Giles, Esq., for petitioner
Jodi S. Howlett, Esq., for respondent (Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, and Jacobs,
attorneys)
Record Closed: December 15, 2022 	Decided: January 30, 2023
BEFORE JUDE-ANTHONY TISCORNIA, ALJ:
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
J.S. and S.S. on behalf of A.S. (petitioners) filed a petition claiming, among other
related items, that the West Morris Regional High School District (District) discriminated
against A.S. due to its failure to provide door-to-door transportation to and from A.S.’s
out-of-district placement.
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PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On February 1, 2022, J.S. and S.S. on behalf of A.S. filed a petition seeking the
following:
A.) 	a declaration that the District has discriminated against A.S. by not providing
her with door-to-door transportation;
B.) 	an order directing the District to provide door-to-door transportation;
C.) 	an order directing the District to reimburse A.S.’s parents for out-of-pocket
expenses and for their time;
D.) 	attorney’s fees; and
E.) 	other relief as appropriate.
The matter was transmitted to the Office of Administrative Law on March 16, 2022,
as a contested case. A hearing was conducted by the undersigned on October 7, 2022.
Final submissions were received by the parties on December 15, 2022, at which point the
record was closed.
FINDINGS OF FACTS
I FIND the following to be the facts of the case:
Petitioners reside on Schooley’s Mountain Road, Long Valley, New Jersey 07853,
and, as such, the West Morris Regional High School District is the local education agency
responsible for providing A.S. with a free, appropriate public education (FAPE). 	The
parties agree that Schooley’s Mountain Road is dangerous and hazardous.
A.S. is currently fifteen years old and in the tenth grade. At the time of the filing of
the due-process petition, A.S. was fourteen years old and attending Sage Alliance (Sage)
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as a ninth-grade student. A.S. has been deemed eligible for special education and related
services under the classification of “other health impaired.”
Prior to becoming a student in the West Morris Regional High School District, A.S.
was a special-education student in the Washington Township School District (Washington
Township). 	While students of Washington Township, both A.S. and her brother were
picked up and dropped off by a Washington Township school bus in front of their house
on Schooley’s Mountain Road.
On June 10, 2020, Washington Township proposed an IEP (“6/10/20 IEP”) placing
A.S. at the Newmark School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Transportation was added as
a related service to her IEP.
On January 14, 2021, Washington Township issued an IEP (“1/14/2021 IEP”)
placing A.S. at Barnstable Academy in Oakland, New Jersey, for the remainder of her
eighth-grade year. 	The Washington Township School District provided A.S. with “curb-
to-curb” transportation as a related service in her IEP through June 10, 2021.
On April 23, 2021, Washington Township convened an Annual Review IEP
meeting (“4/23/21 IEP”). At that meeting, it was contemplated that A.S. was in need of a
more 	therapeutic 	placement 	than 	Barnstable 	Academy 	for 	her 	ninth-grade 	year.
Accordingly, the 4/23/21 IEP provides for A.S. to remain at Barnstable Academy for the
remainder of the 2020–2021 school year. Washington Township sent records to potential
out-of-district placements with a therapeutic component in preparation for A.S.’s freshman
year of high school.
On July 1, 2021, following the completion of A.S.’s eighth-grade year, A.S. became
a student of the West Morris Regional High School District. 	On July 14, 2021, at the
request of petitioners, the West Morris Regional High School District convened an IEP
meeting. 	At that time, petitioners advised the District that they wished to discuss
Barnstable Academy’s decision to discontinue A.S.’s placement in the program. The IEP
team determined that, in reviewing the recommendations from Long Valley Middle School
and Barnstable Academy, a more therapeutic out-of-district placement would most
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appropriately meet A.S.’s social-emotional needs. Petitioners and A.S. attended the July
14, 2021, IEP meeting virtually.
The IEP drafted as a result of the July 14, 2021, meeting (“7/14/21 IEP”) placed
A.S. on home instruction pending her acceptance to an appropriate out-of-district
placement. 	Because A.S. would be receiving home instruction, transportation was not
provided as a “related service” in the 7/14/21 IEP. 	The 7/14/21 IEP was implemented
after expiration of the fifteen-day notice period pursuant to N.J.A.C. 6A:14-2.3(h).
Subsequent to the 7/14/21 IEP meeting, the West Morris Regional High School
District secured A.S.’s placement at Sage Day High School in Boonton, New Jersey, for
the 2021–2022 school year. A.S. started her ninth-grade year at Sage on September 10,
2021. 	Upon A.S.’s placement at Sage, the West Morris Regional High School District
worked to secure A.S.’s transportation to the out-of-district placement.
On September 10, and September 15, 2021, the District put the transportation
route out for public bid to various vendors pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:18A-1 et seq. 	The
District did not receive any bids for transportation from any vendors on A.S.’s route for
Sage. 	On September 20, 2021, the District’s director of special education, Michael
Reinknecht, informed petitioners of the difficulties in securing a vendor to provide
transportation to Sage. On October 1, 2021, the District put the transportation route out
to public bid for a third time to transportation vendors pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:18A-1 et
seq.
In October 2021 the District secured a sole vendor, Cassidy Transportation, to
transport A.S. to and from Sage. Cassidy was then employed by the District to transport
A.S. (via school bus) to Sage, beginning on October 10, 2021. 	Between the time A.S.
started at Sage on September 10, 2021, and Cassidy being contracted to transport A.S.
on October 10, 2021, her father, S.S., drove A.S. to and from Sage every school day for
approximately twenty days.
As A.S. is the only student utilizing the bus route to Sage, Cassidy utilizes a smaller
“short bus” to transport her to and from Sage. 	Due to the hazardous conditions of
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Schooley’s Mountain Road, Cassidy Transportation determined that it may prove unsafe
to effectuate a stop immediately in front of A.S.’s house utilizing this sort of equipment.
Cassidy Transportation, instead, picks up and drops off A.S. at the Washington Township
Municipal Building, one-third mile from A.S.’s home.
On October 5, 2021, petitioners filed a request for a due-process hearing to
challenge the District’s refusal to provide “curb-to-curb” transportation pursuant to the
4/23/21 IEP created by A.S.’s previous district.
On October 12, 2021, West Morris Regional High School District convened a
Thirty-Day Review IEP meeting (“10/12/21 IEP”). 	At that meeting, it was reported by
A.S.’s teachers at Sage that she was transitioning well, and the input reflected strong
clinical and academic feedback. The 10/12/21 IEP provides transportation to Sage as a
related service with pickup and drop-off locations at the Washington Township Municipal
Building. 	Cassidy Transportation has been safely transporting A.S. to and from Sage
daily since October 11, 2021, and throughout the pendency of these proceedings.
SUMMARY OF RELEVANT TESTIMONY
As noted above, this matter was set down for a hearing on October 7, 2022. Prior
to the hearing, it was decided among the parties that the bulk of the testimony to be
presented was duplicative of the testimony already placed on the record in the related
case, J.S. and S.S. on behalf of S.S. v. West Morris Regional Board of Education, OAL
docket number EDS 08829-21. 	Thus, the testimony of all the witnesses taken in EDS
08829-21, along with the corresponding exhibits and transcripts, was incorporated by
reference on the record on October 7, 2022. 	Only the limited testimony of Dr. Michael
Reinknecht was taken at the October 7, 2022, hearing.
Michael Reinknecht
Michael Reinknecht is the District’s director of special education. He testified that
West Morris Regional High School District’s own director of transportation is responsible
for transporting their special-education students. He further testified that West Morris has
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a contract with the Washington Township School District to transport general-education
students. 	Reinknecht stated that he had no knowledge of the fact that all general-
education high-school students who live on Schooley’s Mountain Road are transported
to and from school and picked up in front of their homes.
LEGAL DISCUSSION
In response to the petition, respondent argues that petitioners’ discrimination
claims are barred by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s (IDEA’s) exhaustion
requirement. 	In its brief, the District argues that the IDEA affords parents of a disabled
child the opportunity to present a complaint “with respect to any matter relating to the
identification, evaluation, or educational placement of the child, or the provision of a free
appropriate public education to such child . . . .” 	20 U.S.C. § 1415(b)(6)(A) (emphasis
added). 	The District argues that exhaustion of the IDEA’s administrative process is
required in non-IDEA actions where the petitioner seeks relief that can otherwise be
obtained 	under 	the 	IDEA, 	noting 	that 	Congress 	provided 	an 	express 	“[r]ule 	of
construction” in 20 U.S.C. § 1415(l), which provides:
Nothing in this title [20 U.S.C.S. §§ 1400 et seq.] shall be
construed to restrict or limit the rights, procedures, and
remedies available under the Constitution, the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990, title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
[29 U.S.C.S. §§ 790 et seq.], or other Federal laws protecting
the rights of children with disabilities, except that before the
filing of a civil action under such laws seeking relief that is also
available under this part [20 U.S.C.S. §§ 1411 et seq.], the
[IDEA administrative process] shall be exhausted to the same
extent as would be required had the action been brought
under this part [20 U.S.C.S. §§ 1411 et seq.].
Thus, the District argues that it is only following the outcome of the due-process
hearing that an aggrieved party shall have a right to bring the action filed with the
commissioner. As noted above, petitioners had filed a due-process petition (EDS 08829-
21) and a hearing was held. Although no decision was rendered in that matter when the
instant matter was filed, a decision has since been made, with petitioners being largely
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unsuccessful on their claims, thus, I CONCLUDE that respondent’s exhaustion argument
is, therefore, mute.
Respondent next argues that the commissioner of the Department of Education
does not have jurisdiction over claims brought pursuant to the New Jersey Law Against
Discrimination or the Americans With Disabilities Act, asserting that the extent of the
jurisdiction of the commissioner is set forth in N.J.S.A. 18A:6-9, which provides the
following:
The 	commissioner 	shall 	have 	jurisdiction 	to 	hear 	and
determine, without cost to the parties, all controversies and
disputes 	arising 	under 	the 	school 	laws, 	excepting 	those
governing higher education, or under the rules of the State
board or of the commissioner.
Thus, respondent argues, the statute clearly implies that where the controversy
does not arise under the school laws, it is outside the commissioner’s jurisdiction.
As petitioners rightfully point out in their brief, however, New Jersey’s Equality and
Equity in Education law provides that “[n]o pupil in a public school in this State shall be
discriminated against in admission to, or in obtaining any advantages, privileges or
courses of study of the school by reason of race, color, creed, sex or national origin.”
N.J.S.A. 18A:36-20; see also N.J.A.C. 6A:7-1.1, which states:
The 	purpose 	of 	this 	chapter 	is 	to 	ensure 	all 	students,
regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age,
marital 	status, 	affectional 	or 	sexual 	orientation, 	gender,
gender 	identity 	or 	expression, 	religion, 	disability, 	or
socioeconomic 	status, 	are 	provided 	equal 	access 	to
educational 	programs and 	services 	by district 	boards 	of
education.
Based on the foregoing, I CONCLUDE that petitioners’ current petition is properly
before the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education as per the plain
language of the above-referenced statutes and regulations.
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With these jurisdictional and procedural issues now resolved, I turn to address
petitioners’ case-in-chief: 	the assertion that the Board discriminated against A.S. by
denying her curb-to-curb transportation, a service, they claim, provided to all other
students living on Schooley’s Mountain Road, because A.S. has a disability.
As discussed in the factual findings above, and as discussed at length in the
related special-education case, the District put A.S.’s transportation route out for public
bid to various vendors, with Cassidy Transportation ultimately winning the bid and
securing the contract to transport A.S. to and from Sage. This transportation route was
put out to bid because A.S. is entitled to, and receives, special-education instruction at
her out-of-district placement, Sage Academy. 	This placement was chosen by A.S.’s
parents after evaluating other facilities and determining Sage to be the best placement
for their child. 	As transportation is a related service to A.S.’s special-education
programing, the District is obliged to put the transportation route out to bid so that A.S.
may properly access her special-education programing, as she has been doing on a
regular basis thus far.
After Cassidy won the bid and traveled to A.S.’s home, Cassidy determined that,
due to the hazardous conditions of Schooley’s Mountain Road, Cassidy could not safely
pick up A.S. directly in front of her home with the equipment (short school bus) it utilizes
to transport A.S. 	Thus, Cassidy resolved to pick A.S. up at the municipal building
approximately one-third mile down the road from A.S.’s home, which Cassidy determined
to be the closest location to A.S.’s house at which the bus may safely execute a stop.
Petitioners argue that if A.S. were a general-education student, she would be
picked up by a larger bus, one that would, presumably, be able to stop in front of her
home safely. 	Thus, they reason that, but for A.S.’s learning disability, which, in turn,
brought forth an IEP calling for an out-of-district placement and transportation as a related
service, A.S. would be picked up in front of her home by a larger bus on a daily basis.
Petitioners argue that A.S.’s disability is the cause in fact, or the “but for” cause of A.S.
not being picked up directly in front of her home. While this scenario may be a cause in
fact, it is not the only cause in fact. One may argue, for instance, that “but for” the location
of the petitioners’ house being on a hazardous stretch of road, A.S. would be picked up
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in front of her home. 	If, for example, she lived in a residential neighborhood with wide,
straight, level lanes of traffic, effectuating a stop directly in front of her home with any
motor vehicle—short bus, long bus, etc.—could be achieved with ease. 	Thus, while
A.S.’s disability may be a cause in fact of why A.S. is not picked up immediately in front
of her home, it is not the proximate cause, and, therefore, not the direct cause of why she
is not picked up in front of her house. Rather, I CONCLUDE that A.S. being picked up at
the municipal building is an unintended consequence of the Board’s implementation of
A.S.’s IEP, so that she may access a free and appropriate education as required by law.
ORDER
Based upon the foregoing, it is ORDERED that the petition of appeal be, and
hereby is, DISMISSED.
I 	hereby 	FILE 	this 	initial 	decision 	with 	the 	COMMISSIONER 	OF 	THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION for consideration.
This 	recommended 	decision 	may 	be 	adopted, 	modified 	or 	rejected 	by 	the
COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, who by law is authorized
to make a final decision in this matter. 	If the Commissioner of the Department of
Education does not adopt, modify or reject this decision within forty-five days and unless
such time limit is otherwise extended, this recommended decision shall become a final
decision in accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14B-10.
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Within thirteen days from the date on which this recommended decision was
mailed to the parties, any party may file written exceptions with the COMMISSIONER OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, ATTN: 	BUREAU OF CONTROVERSIES AND
DISPUTES, 100 Riverview Plaza, 4th Floor, PO Box 500, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-
0500, marked “Attention: 	Exceptions.” 	A copy of any exceptions must be sent to the
judge and to the other parties.
January 30, 2023
DATE 	JUDE-ANTHONY TISCORNIA, ALJ
Date Received at Agency: 	1/30/23
Date Mailed to Parties: 	1/30/23
id
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APPENDIX
LIST OF WITNESSES
Respondent’s Witnesses:
None presented at hearing (See notes on page 5,above)
Petitioners’ Witnesses:
Michael Reinknecht
EXHIBIT LIST
The respondent and petitioner’s exhibit list and all accompanying exhibits in the
related matter of J.S. and S.S. on behalf of S.S. v. West Morris Regional Board of
Education, OAL docket number EDS 08829-21, is incorporated into this matter by
reference. (See notes on page 5, above)

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