"Any party aggrieved by the findings and decision" made by the state educational agency conducting or reviewing the due process hearing may bring a civil action in any competent state court or in federal court. The IDEA allows states to adopt a two-tiered level of agency review, § 1415(b) (2), (c), which Pennsylvania has done. Any parent making such a complaint must "have an opportunity for an impartial due process hearing" before a designated state educational agency. The IDEA provides a parent of a child with disabilities "an opportunity to present complaints 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.A. Defendants ask me to affirm the decision of the Appeals Panel and require Cheltenham to create a Life Skills Support program for Joel within its own district. Cheltenham seeks to place Joel in an existing Life Skills Support program located in a nearby school district, rather than to create such a program within its own school district. Trent ("Hearing Officer Trent"), which approved placement of Joel in a Life Skills Support program but which did not identify any particular location for the placement. Cheltenham asks me to vacate the Appeals Panel's decision and reinstate the order of Special Education Hearing Officer Vernard M.W. Cheltenham seeks review under § 1415(e) (2) of a decision by the Special Education Due Process Appeals Review Panel of Pennsylvania ("Appeals Panel"), an administrative tribunal, in which the Appeals Panel ruled that Cheltenham must provide a special education Life Skills Support program for Joel within the Cheltenham school district. and Robert P., Joel's parents, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA"), 20 U.S.C.A. Plaintiff Cheltenham School District ("Cheltenham") brought this action against Defendants Joel P.
Victor Paul Goldberg, Melrose Park, PA, for Defendants. and Robert P., Suzanne P., individually and on her own behalf, and Robert P., Defendants. JOEL P., a minor, by his parents and next friends, SUZANNE P.
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