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[quote=Anonymous]If it's a lottery placement, it shouldn't move you out of the IFSP.  If it's an Early Stages placement (early stages said, here's the IEP, here's what he needs, here's his location of services) it WILL move you out of the IFSP.

We were on the fence about this last year as well, had a lottery placement in our neighborhood school, completed paperwork/enrollment/accepted the spot by the May deadline.  Did not move to an IEP/officially off the IFSP track until July.  Had we actually attended school in August without completing the official IFSP to IEP process, I don't know what they would have done, but the act of accepting a lottery placement didn't matter.  In July, Early Stages "placed" us at our neighborhood school, and accepting that placement (and the IEP) is what bumped us off the IFSP track.

We regret it.  We would have had a better year/seen more progress had we stayed with IFSP services, which were actually finally working.  Early Stages/DCPS decreased several of our services (and then the local school failed to provide some of them/provided them inconsistently), our class placement was chaos, while we switched schools mid year and recovered a little bit, I'm certain we lost ground, and we would have had so many more options and I think a better outcome had we stuck with the IFSP (at one point, before we located another PreK 3 spot, I was prepared to exit DCPS and head back to a daycare setting and fund some services privately, is how bad it was, particularly since what we could fund privately was minimal compared to what was needed).

Your experience may differ, particularly depending on how much support/services your child needs or of what kind, what school you're at, what other options you have, whether IFSP services are working, etc. 
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