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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your IB school? We all may have experience with the process. I will tell you that DCPS doesn't have to accept outside evaluations. Best to get the ball rolling with the school soon.[/quote]

What do you mean by DC doesn't have to "accept" outside evaluations?  Did someone in your process tell you this as a way of rejecting your information?

Under federal law, all school systems must allow independent educational evaluations and in some circumstances when the parents have followed the appropriate process even pay for the IEE.  The IEP team must "consider" these independent evaluations.  A school system may have certain minimum requirements to "consider" the outside evaluation, but it can't tell you who to use.  For example, in MoCo, the tester must be licensed, only certain kinds of testers are considered "valid" for certain areas (like licensed SPL is the only type of provider whose input will be considered on speech problems and neuropsych or sped teacher is only assessor that will be considered for reading achievement) and the assessor must provide a written report.

A school may not agree with an outside report or do exactly what is recommended but if they reject it out of hand even though it meets the minimum regulatory standards of the state, then the school is setting themselves up for a complaint, or a FAPE case.  This is particularly true if the outside report contains hard data like standardized, normed test results.  For example, if the standardized testing results indicate that Larla is performing at the 8th percentile in reading, then DCPS can't really say, "we think Larla is reading just fine," particularly if Larla's IQ is 1 1/2 standard deviations above the 8th percentile.

Def post under special needs, you will get detailed feedback there.  [/quote]

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