Anonymous wrote:We had our DS in private for early elementary but kept our IEP active (in case he needed to go back to MCPS). Basically, we contacted the private and parochial school department of MCPS (blanking on the exact name) and they connected us to our Home School. Every year while DS was in private, we had an annual review and discussed his plans for the IEP and set goals etc. And then that IEP is converted into what’s called a Service plan (I think that’s the name) and that is an active legal document in the MCPS school system. They can offer you very minimal services at your home school (like speech once a week if you qualify etc) but you can refuse those services and still keep the service plan active. When he transitioned back to MCPS, it was much easier because we were already in the system, and met with the home switched him back to IEP status at his annual review. Please make sure you don’t let the IEP process lapse or close bc it’s such a pain to restart all over again. We had Ed consultants come to our meetings as well to help guide the discussion etc.
This 100%. You can also do 1) evaluations once every 3 years through the public school and 2) get some (very limited) money for services through the parochial school department.
The previous PP is giving totally false info about closing IEP.