1. Public Education Symposium
Students First: A Public Trust
Brenda J. Bowlby
February 2, 2007

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Overview
• Identification, Placement & Review
Committee (IPRC)
• Special Education Appeal Board
• Special Education Tribunal
• Mediation
• Judicial Review

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IPRC
• (O. Reg. 181/98, ss.14 -25)
• composition
• referral of students
• role of parents/students
• “pre-IPRC” process
• jurisdiction

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IPRC
Criteria in determining placement
• Educatio n Act, s. 8(3):
Minister shall ensure availability to
exceptional children “appropriate” special
education programs and services and to
provide for parents to appeal
“appropriateness of the special education
placement”

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IPRC
Criteria in determining placement:
• ( O. Reg.181/98, s. 17):
before considering special education class
placement, consider if placement in regular
class with appropriate special education
services would meet pupil's needs, and
consistent with parental wishes

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IPRC
• Reconsideration
• Effecting placement

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The First Stage of Appeal: SEAB
• (O. Reg. 181/98, ss. 26 - 30)
• Composition
• Timing
• Information to be considered

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The First Stage of Appeal: SEAB
• Jurisdiction
• Recommendation
• Decision by school board

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The Final Appeal: SET
• Educatio n Act, s. 57
• Composition
• Grounds: “dissatisfied with
decision”

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The Final Appeal: SET
• Jurisdiction
• Statuto ry Po we rs Pro ce dure Act
Hearing
• Decision: “final and binding”

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Judicial Review
• Not an appeal
• JudicialRe vie w Pro ce dure Act
• Divisional Court (of Ontario Court of
Justice)

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Judicial Review
• Review limited to jurisdiction,
constitutional issues, errors of law
• Standard of review
• Appeal of decision to Court of
Appeal and Supreme Court of
Canada

13. Public Education Symposium
Students First: A Public Trust
Brenda J. Bowlby
February 2, 2007