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[quote=Anonymous]DC SPED educator of two decades here - DO NOT switch schools before the IEP process is completed. At the new school they will monitor your child for 30 school days before deciding if they will even consider moving ahead for services because the child new to them. Your prior focumentation means nothing to the new school. Since you’re coming from a language immersion they’ll want even more than 30 days so if there’s an indication of the need for services after the initial 30 day review, they will place your child in the pre-referral process which can take up to 60 additional days. The goal of the pre-referral process is to see if strategies fix any issues thus not necessitating SPED services/an IEP at all.

You may not need an IEP but if it turns out you do, moving schools will delay appropriate services and their LRE by at least 6 months. And that’s if the new school is on their SPED game. Stay and start the process now. Write a letter of your desire to move forward with testing if you need to speed up the process. You can still lottery for next year while the process plays out.[/quote]

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