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petitioners call a “microschool”.4 BUSD agreed to reimburse
petitioners for GJR’s special education expenses up to $44,000
per year in exchange for petitioners’ releasing BUSD from any
liability for failing to provide GJR with a “free and appropriate
public education” (FAPE).
Petitioners did not spend much time teaching GJR in either
the afterschool program or the microschool. Instead, petitioners
hired several people who were interested in being teachers,
trained them using methods petitioners had developed or learned
through BIA and AIA, and had them teach GJR. Claudia Alexander
(Ms. Alexander) was one of GJR’s teachers from June 1998 through
the years in issue.
Petitioners had two sources of funding for the afterschool
program and the microschool, Regional Center and BUSD. Regional
Center, a California State organization that provides funding for
qualifying families for special education needs, paid petitioners
directly for a limited number of hours petitioners spent on GJR’s
education. From June 1998 through November 2000, petitioners
received indirect funding from BUSD channeled through Ms.
Alexander. BUSD paid Ms. Alexander, who would then sign her
paychecks over to petitioners. Petitioners would use the
paychecks and additional funds to pay Ms. Alexander and the other
4 For purposes of clarity, the Court will use petitioners’
terminology of afterschool program and microschool when referring
to petitioners’ home-schooling activities.
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