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[quote=Anonymous]Your daughter needs some type of documentation that they are urging her to get a private evaluation.  If the school has any concerns that a disability exists that is having an academic impact, especially a disability that they have not yet identified, then they are legally obligated to do the evaluation or pay for the private evaluation.  Even though the last IEP has been dismissed, after collecting the data regarding ongoing problems and school concerns, your daughter has a right to ask in writing for the principal at the school to "hold an IEP meeting to screen and evaluate for disabilities that may be impacting academic performance due to current areas of concern by teachers and staff at the school."  If she received a specific recommendation for private testing, she should document who gave that recommendation and when in her letter.

The school at that point would be required to have an IEP screening meeting within 30 days of the principal receiving the letter.  She should bring any documents (ie. past IEP notes, teacher emails, comments on assignments and/or report card or interim reports, private recommendations, etc.) that support an evaluation and suspected disability.  Your daughter does not need to identify what she thinks the disability is.  Just areas of difficulties the staff is identifying as issues and grounds for recommending the private evaluation.  If the school is saying they don't have the resources for the evaluation then your daughter at that point should ask, "If my child needs an evaluation and you don't have the proper resources, then aren't you legally obligated to pay for the evaluation?"  If the school refuses or if their evaluation is not comprehensive, your daughter has the right to ask in writing for a "independent evaluation at public expense."[/quote]

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