N.D.

N.D., et al., disabled minors enrolled in the State of Hawaii’s public school system, alleging violations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400-1487 (2006), appeal an order denying their motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to prevent Hawaii from shutting down public schools on seventeen *1108 Fridays and concurrently furloughing the teachers. We agree with the district court that the stay-put provision of the IDEA was not intended to cover system-wide changes in public schools that affect disabled and non-disabled children alike, and that such system-wide changes are not changes in educational placement. The district court had jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 , 1343 (2006). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a)(1) (2006) to hear this interlocutory appeal. We affirm.

I.

The State of Hawaii is currently in the midst of a major fiscal crisis. To help alleviate the fiscal crisis, Hawaii decided to shut down the public schools for seventeen Fridays in the 2009-2010 school year. School children, disabled and nondisabled alike, would not attend school on those Fridays. The elimination of those seventeen Fridays from the school…