Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t trying to kick kids out of special education. It’s a federal law that every three years the IEP team meets to consider if the child still needs special education services. They have to determine if there is still evidence of LD or whatever. They used to completely retest every kid every three years. If I were a parent, I’d want the testing every three years to see what progress was being made. They can’t kick a kid out of special education without parent consent.

FCPS uses it as an opportunity to try and kick kids out of special education- especially kids with dyslexia

It is very insulting to say this. To use testing to "kick kids out of special education" suggests that providers are falsifying results. I spent 7 years and a lot of money on my degree and I'm not going to risk my certification and licensure to get a kid off my caseload. This is a ridiculous suggestion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t trying to kick kids out of special education. It’s a federal law that every three years the IEP team meets to consider if the child still needs special education services. They have to determine if there is still evidence of LD or whatever. They used to completely retest every kid every three years. If I were a parent, I’d want the testing every three years to see what progress was being made. They can’t kick a kid out of special education without parent consent.

FCPS uses it as an opportunity to try and kick kids out of special education- especially kids with dyslexia

Ugh, rolling my eyes. This just isn’t true. After a while, your child may not need reading pullouts anymore because they’ve learned the skills needed to be successful. No one is trying to KICK kids out, but there’s a lot of research that time out of the class is often detrimental, so they are trying to see if the child still needs the service. If they need it, they’ll keep it.

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t trying to kick kids out of special education. It’s a federal law that every three years the IEP team meets to consider if the child still needs special education services. They have to determine if there is still evidence of LD or whatever. They used to completely retest every kid every three years. If I were a parent, I’d want the testing every three years to see what progress was being made. They can’t kick a kid out of special education without parent consent.

FCPS uses it as an opportunity to try and kick kids out of special education- especially kids with dyslexia

Special services require funding and funding requires review of services. Is there a reason you don’t want to retest after 3 years?

OP we went through this last year. Our school didn't recommend any testing ("Good news - we think your kid still needs his IEP so we aren't recommending any testing").

We said ok and moved on, and it was a mistake. Our kid actually needed new and different services. We never got the services because we never got test results to prove that he had deficits in those areas. My advice to you is to think big and ask yourself, is there any testing that could be useful.

Anonymous wrote:They aren’t trying to kick kids out of special education. It’s a federal law that every three years the IEP team meets to consider if the child still needs special education services. They have to determine if there is still evidence of LD or whatever. They used to completely retest every kid every three years. If I were a parent, I’d want the testing every three years to see what progress was being made. They can’t kick a kid out of special education without parent consent.

Not exactly. Parents are part of the IEP process so they are part of the decision-making process. If the team does testing and there is no longer evidence of a disability that impacts the student's access to curriculum, there may no longer be a need for services. This would be a recommendation from the school team to discontinue services. Parents might disagree with removing the IEP and school team could tell them they can exercise their rights to file for mediation/due process. They wouldn't continue to implement an IEP just because parents didn't consent to dismiss from services.

They aren’t trying to kick kids out of special education. It’s a federal law that every three years the IEP team meets to consider if the child still needs special education services. They have to determine if there is still evidence of LD or whatever. They used to completely retest every kid every three years. If I were a parent, I’d want the testing every three years to see what progress was being made. They can’t kick a kid out of special education without parent consent.

Federal law requires that the students IEP Team meet to review continued eligibility. If the team has enough existing data to confirm continued eligibility, no assessments will be recommended. If additional data is needed to confirm either continued eligibility or to examine a new area of suspected disability, assessments will be completed. The result will determine whether or not the student continues to qualify and, if so, what services and accommodations will be provided.

Most of the time this is just a legal requirement. If the team (case manager, the parent etc) agree that the student still needs special education and the needs are known very little testing is done. If there is disagreement, or a concern for new areas of need then maybe more testing is done.

Does the school think that your student no longer needs specialized instruction? Testing can show that an IEP is no longer needed, but you'd know if that's what they are signalling. More likely, testing will be used to make sure that all areas of disability are being supported.

We are in MCPS. May I ask what the goals are for IEP kids to have re-evaluation ecery 3 years? Is that to get kids kicked out of IEP plans? Anyone know or have experiences that kids get kicked out of IEP qualification during the 3 year IEP re-evaluation years?