Acronyms
IEP
What is an individualized education program/plan?
This dispute resolution option is available if you file a due process complaint (""DPC), a state complaint, or even if you choose not to file a complaint.
What is mediation?
The first items I should obtain to support all of my advocacy goals.
What is gathering my child's records/making a records request?
The school will not revise my child's IEP to include a service they need supported by data.
What is an inappropriate IEP claim?
The number of days a school has to provide a parent/designee with records from a written records request?
What is 45 calendar days?
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
This DCPS Team is responsible for receiving claims of discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying, or any unfair treatment a student, parent/visitor encounters at a DCPS school.
What is the CARE Team (Comprehensive Alternative Resolution & Equity Team)?
The number of days before an IEP meeting that the school must provide documents relevant to an IEP meeting.
What is 5 business days?
The school did not provide all of my child's speech services for 4 months.
What is a failure to implement my child's IEP claim?
After a parent files a DPC, the number of days a hearing officer has to make a final decision.
What is 75-calendar days?
FAPE
What is a free appropriate public education?
What I can file if the school denies my child a right to a free appropriate public education ("FAPE") that requires witness testimony and evidence.
What is a due process complaint ("DPC")?
This is what I should write in preparation for an IEP meeting.
What is a meeting agenda and/or list of topics, concerns, questions, suggestions, and proposed IEP revisions to discuss with the IEP Team before the IEP Meeting.
The office where I can file a DPC and/or request mediation.
What is OSSE's Office of Dispute Resolution?
The name of the first 30-days during the 75-day day due process timeline.
What is the resolution period?
DPC
What is a due process complaint?
The name of the complaint I can file for OSSE to investigate allegations that a school district has violated the IDEA and/or any other state special education laws and ends with a Letter of Decision ("LOD").
What is a State Complaint?
The right to meaningful parent/caregiver participation in my child's education.
What is a parent's/caregiver's right to participate all IEP meetings and make education decisions.
The school failed to identify, locate, and/or evaluate my child to determine if they were eligible for special education.
What is a Child Find violation?
The name for all week days that are not federal holidays, or professional development days, or other days closed for all students. This is different than a calendar day.
What is a school day?
HOD
What is a hearing officer's decision?
This is an award the hearing officer can order the school to provide to make-up for services the school failed to provide, for example, private tutoring services and private counseling services.
What is compensatory education?
Ways to memorialize/save/record the discussions from an IEP meeting.
What is writing notes during the IEP Meeting, making an audio recording of the IEP, and/or notating the school's IEP meeting notes - to reflect all points, agreements, disagreements, and next steps.
The school wants to move my child to a self contained classroom, but I want them to remain in the general education classroom.
What is a least restrictive environment ("LRE") (placement)/appropriate educational placement violation?
The number of days an aggrieved party has to appeal a hearing officer's decision.
What is 90 calendar days?