in Matter of Sidney K. v. Ambach

Cross appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Hughes, J.), entered June 10, 1987 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, granted *875petitioner’s motion for costs and reasonable counsel fees against certain respondents.

Petitioner is a handicapped child who was identified as emotionally disturbed and was enrolled in a private school, the Hebrew Institute for the Deaf and Exceptional Children (hereinafter HID), at public expense from September 1979 through the end of the 1983-1984 school year. On March 1, 1984 the Committee on the Handicapped…