504 procedural deadlines? DCPS

[Anonymous]

How long after requesting a 504 does DCPS have to respond? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long after requesting a 504 does DCPS have to respond? Thanks!

I'd always ask for an IEP first, even if you think you want a 504. The timelines are generally shorter and more enforceable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long after requesting a 504 does DCPS have to respond? Thanks!

I'd always ask for an IEP first, even if you think you want a 504. The timelines are generally shorter and more enforceable.

Thanks but I have reason to believe we could be denied for an IEP, although we can't be denied for 504 due to an objectively documented disability.

[Anonymous]

After you request in writing an initial evaluation, the school has 120 days after receiving the written referral to make a determination (per the procedural safeguards document from Office of the State Superintendent of Education revised Jan 2011)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After you request in writing an initial evaluation, the school has 120 days after receiving the written referral to make a determination (per the procedural safeguards document from Office of the State Superintendent of Education revised Jan 2011)

Is this for a 504 too or just an IEP? Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After you request in writing an initial evaluation, the school has 120 days after receiving the written referral to make a determination (per the procedural safeguards document from Office of the State Superintendent of Education revised Jan 2011)

Is this for a 504 too or just an IEP? Thanks!!

Np. The 120 days is for an IEP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long after requesting a 504 does DCPS have to respond? Thanks!

I'd always ask for an IEP first, even if you think you want a 504. The timelines are generally shorter and more enforceable.

Thanks but I have reason to believe we could be denied for an IEP, although we can't be denied for 504 due to an objectively documented disability.

That doesn't matter - often the outcome is we can't support and IEP, but let's discuss a 504.

How long have you been waiting OP?

[Anonymous]

Are you going through your school or directly to early stages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you going through your school or directly to early stages?

Through the school.

[Anonymous]

Our DCPS elementary school told us 30 days and set a meeting for 22 days from our request. We requested a 504, came in with ideas for the 504 and it was granted, effective the next day. We were thrilled, especially because it stopped a less-than-desirable response by the teacher to our DC. It's a small school though so fewer kids to deal with for the administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our DCPS elementary school told us 30 days and set a meeting for 22 days from our request. We requested a 504, came in with ideas for the 504 and it was granted, effective the next day. We were thrilled, especially because it stopped a less-than-desirable response by the teacher to our DC. It's a small school though so fewer kids to deal with for the administration.

Wow! Did they tell you that was DCPS policy, the 30 days? I have a list of fairly basic requests so I am hoping that we will have a similar response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our DCPS elementary school told us 30 days and set a meeting for 22 days from our request. We requested a 504, came in with ideas for the 504 and it was granted, effective the next day. We were thrilled, especially because it stopped a less-than-desirable response by the teacher to our DC. It's a small school though so fewer kids to deal with for the administration.

Of course it did. A teacher who breaches a 504 is by statute personally liable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our DCPS elementary school told us 30 days and set a meeting for 22 days from our request. We requested a 504, came in with ideas for the 504 and it was granted, effective the next day. We were thrilled, especially because it stopped a less-than-desirable response by the teacher to our DC. It's a small school though so fewer kids to deal with for the administration.

Of course it did. A teacher who breaches a 504 is by statute personally liable.

What?? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our DCPS elementary school told us 30 days and set a meeting for 22 days from our request. We requested a 504, came in with ideas for the 504 and it was granted, effective the next day. We were thrilled, especially because it stopped a less-than-desirable response by the teacher to our DC. It's a small school though so fewer kids to deal with for the administration.

Wow! Did they tell you that was DCPS policy, the 30 days? I have a list of fairly basic requests so I am hoping that we will have a similar response.

PP here - I'm sorry, it was more than a year ago and I can't remember if they said it was our school or DCPS policy. Having a list will definitely help you frame and focus the conversation. There's a lot of 504 self-help type websites to give you ideas. DH and I did a bunch of research and came up with 20 ideas. Then we thought more about our DC and scaled it back to 8 that we thought would be the most helpful-- small things like preferential seating, time to walk around the classroom if the body can't be still, chunking directions (giving them in 2 steps instead of laying out 4 steps DC would have to do complete a project...), etc. School accepted all 8 and added a 9th that we never would have thought of. Good luck!