{"id":17467,"date":"2019-07-22T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2019-07-24T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:20:28","slug":"compensatory-ed-can-conpensatory-services-be-paid-in-lump-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/compensatory-ed-can-conpensatory-services-be-paid-in-lump-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Compensatory Ed: CAN CONPENSATORY SERVICES BE PAID IN LUMP SUM?"},"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=\"Compensatory%20Ed%3A%20CAN%20CONPENSATORY%20SERVICES%20BE%20PAID%20IN%20LUMP%20SUM%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Peter:&nbsp;&nbsp; Previous mediation resulted in agreement of services to be included in the IEP for school year 2015-2016. Services were added to the IEP but most of them were not provided until Feb 2016, and even then they were not the full services required.<\/p>\n<p>Compensatory hours were promised for services missed, but school was so far behind that there was no way hours could be provided before the end of the school year (and my son graduated). The school currently owed almost 60 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Since my son has already graduated, I don\u2019t want to have to continue to deal with the school system for what could be up to a year, to use up 60 hours, which I intend to use to help him with college. I also don\u2019t want get into a situation where they refuse to pay for certain things. I want to be the sole arbiter of what services to provide. Therefore, I would like them to pay me a lump sum.<\/p>\n<p>The school acknowledges the owed hours, but says they can only pay as services are rendered and not as a lump sum.<\/p>\n<p>Since I have already prevailed at mediation, I am entitled to go directly to court. Or I could just request another mediation. What is the likelihood of getting a lump sum? The law is silent on this and simply says that compensatory services must be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter:&nbsp;&nbsp; Previous mediation resulted in agreement of services to be included in the IEP for school year 2015-2016. Services were added to the IEP but most of them were not <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/compensatory-ed-can-conpensatory-services-be-paid-in-lump-sum\/\">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":[1345],"class_list":["post-17467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-c"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467","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=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24685,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions\/24685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}