Opinion ID: 788045
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The 2000-2001 School Year (the year at issue)

Text: 9 Although the IHO had not yet issued a decision on the parents' tuition reimbursement claim for Maplebrook for the 1999-2000 school year, the CSE presented the parents with an IEP for the 2000-2001 school year, which the parents rejected during an August 31, 2000 meeting. At the meeting, the parents informed the District that they would be placing T.M. at Maplebrook for a second year. In October 2000, the parents asked the District for class profiles for the special-education classes recommended in the IEP. Nineteen days later, the Special Education Director responded that he did not routinely develop class profiles for those classes. On January 6, 2001, the parents formally requested an impartial hearing, seeking tuition reimbursement relating to T.M.'s placement at Maplebrook for the 2000-2001 school year. The hearings took place between March and May 2001. In June 2001, the IHO denied the parents' reimbursement claim, finding that T.M.'s unilateral placement at Maplebrook was not the least restrictive environment and [was] therefore inappropriate, and that the District had provided a FAPE. 10 In July 2001, the parents appealed the IHO's decision. Almost a year later, on June 20, 2002, the SRO dismissed the appeal, finding that the high school classes proposed in the 2000-2001 IEP were appropriate for T.M. In this decision, the SRO remarked, by way of background, that he was addressing the second appeal involving T.M.; in the previous appeal, No. 00-084, the SRO had ordered reimbursement for T.M.'s tuition at Maplebrook. The SRO then said, Maplebrook became the student's pendency placement for the 2000-01 school year, by virtue of [that] decision (34 CFR 300.514[c]). 2