{"id":15678,"date":"2016-04-04T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=15678"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:19:06","slug":"ieps-drawn-out-ieps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/ieps-drawn-out-ieps\/","title":{"rendered":"IEPs: DRAWN-OUT IEPS"},"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=\"IEPs%3A%20DRAWN-OUT%20IEPS\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Cheryl:\u00a0 I am a retired SDC teacher, acting now as an (unpaid) advocate for SPED kids and their parents in a small, rural school district in CA. A have a few students whose IEPs have been so protracted and drawn-out (the district never allows more than an hour for an IEP; then they act as if they&#8217;ve given you a gift if it goes longer!), that finalizing an IEP can take months. By the time the IEP is finished, the next IEP is literally only 6-8 months away; teachers are tired of meeting for the same kid &#8211; which makes them much less invested &#8211; and the parent is in trouble with work for having to take time off during the work day! Is there something &#8211; a law, a ruling &#8211; that calls this for what it is (stalling, wasting the Team&#8217;s time, wearing down the parents, etc.)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl:\u00a0 I am a retired SDC teacher, acting now as an (unpaid) advocate for SPED kids and their parents in a small, rural school district in CA. A have a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/ieps-drawn-out-ieps\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1342],"tags":[1347],"class_list":["post-15678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-i"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15682,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions\/15682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}