{"id":1175,"date":"2009-12-21T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2009-12-21T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:40:54","slug":"were-moving-when-should-i-tell-the-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/were-moving-when-should-i-tell-the-school\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Moving! &#8211; When Should I Tell the School?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"%20We%27re%20Moving%21%20-%20When%20Should%20I%20Tell%20the%20School%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>Last year the school really dropped the ball on my child&#8217;s IEP.  His &#8216;first year&#8217; teacher left out all the accommodations and modifications.  He had his worst year on record. In order to avoid a due process hearing the school has come back with a &#8220;cadillac&#8221; IEP. They were over generous in the level of services and agreed to develop a BIP to be in place the first day of school.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, we are moving to another district.   If we tell them we&#8217;re moving, I&#8217;m sure they won&#8217;t work to get the BIP in place.   I&#8217;m sure the new school will not want to provide the level of services in the current IEP.   What should I do?  Should we notify the old school now?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When your child enrolls a new school in the same state, the new or receiving school must provide services that are comparable to those described in his current IEP.<\/p>\n<p>How long does the new school have to implement the current IEP? The short answer is that the receiving school must implement your child&#8217;s current IEP without delay.<\/p>\n<p>I understand your fear and&#8230;<!--more--> concern that the new district will want to change the IEP because of the level of services.  They may be right.  Despite that, it is better that you go forward, enroll your child and provide the current IEP to the new district.  Begin immediately to work to establish good relationships with the staff at the new school.<\/p>\n<p>If you are sneaky and don&#8217;t disclose the move  or the IEP until the last minute, the school people will realize what happened. Your behavior will taint your relationship with the new school from the outset.  You only have one chance to make a good first impression.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find what IDEA 2004 says here: 20 U.S.C. \u00a7 1414(d)(2)(C)(i)(I);  34 CFR \u00a7 300.323(e) &#8211; p. 102 and p. 249, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/selaw2\/selaw2.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The law assumes that the current IEP provides your child with FAPE.  It must be implemented without delay.  If the new school believes the IEP provides more services than your child needs, they must conduct new evaluations and develop a new IEP.  This is likely to take 2-3 months or more.<\/p>\n<p>Does the  new school have to provide special education services during this time?  <strong>Absolutely!<\/strong> During that time, the receiving school is required to provide services that are comparable to those in the current IEP. This requirement to provide services continues until the receiving district either adopts the previous IEP or consults with you to develop and implement a new IEP.<\/p>\n<p>You will find answers to questions like these and many more in Chapter 13  &#8220;When You Move: Transfers and Education Records&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/bks\/aaiep\/cover.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Wrightslaw: All About IEPs<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year the school really dropped the ball on my child&#8217;s IEP. His &#8216;first year&#8217; teacher left out all the accommodations and modifications. He had his worst year on record. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/were-moving-when-should-i-tell-the-school\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,3,35,57,8,5,18,7,11,64,136],"tags":[1291,460,465,1301,31,1309,1293,1299,38,464],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodations-modifications","category-advocacy","category-eligibility","category-fape","category-faqs","category-idea-2004","category-ieps","category-legal-news","category-special-ed-law","category-special-education-regulations","category-strategies","tag-advocacy","tag-all-about-ieps","tag-changing-schools","tag-eligibility","tag-evaluations","tag-fape","tag-idea-2004","tag-ieps","tag-rights-responsibilities","tag-transfers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}