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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

That Wrightslaw page is confusing.  At one point it says:

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There is no provision in the law that allows districts to limit the cost or that requires parents to pay a portion of the cost of an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE). - See more at: http://www.wrightslaw.com/blog/?p=8697#sthash.Ctfjwd2t.dpuf

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although it qualifies it by saying that it's based on IDEA 97 (as if 10 years wasn't long enough to review IDEA 2004) and then later it says

[quote=Wrightslaw]

It is not inconsistent with IDEA for a district to publish a list of the names and addresses of evaluators that meet agency criteria, including reasonable cost criteria. - See more at: http://www.wrightslaw.com/blog/?p=8697#sthash.Ctfjwd2t.dpuf

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I don't have an answer for the OP, but I don't think the two sentences cited above are inconsistent with each other. A school district is free to publish a list -- perhaps to offer guidance, perhaps to encourage the use of those practitioners -- but cannot require the use of the people on that list.

OP, has the school given you something in writing that limits the cost of the IEE? What does that cite to -- a law, policy, regulation, something else?[/quote]

I didn't post the whole page, but further down it says that if a family wants an evaluator not on the list they can request it and the district can either allow it or go to Due Process.[/quote]

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