{"id":20454,"date":"2018-12-17T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=20454"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:35:51","slug":"eligibility-below-grade-level-dont-they-look-at-local-vs-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/eligibility-below-grade-level-dont-they-look-at-local-vs-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligibility: BELOW GRADE LEVEL? DON&#8217;T THEY LOOK AT LOCAL VS NATIONAL?"},"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=\"Eligibility%3A%20BELOW%20GRADE%20LEVEL%3F%20DON%27T%20THEY%20LOOK%20AT%20LOCAL%20VS%20NATIONAL%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Marie Ann:&nbsp; My child seems to be not eligible for SPED because our state indicates the child &#8220;has to be below 12%&#8221;. This sounds like such a load to me because we all know that numbers can be manipulated and the state doesn&#8217;t easily indicate precisely what they are talking about. So I am looking at our Woodcock J results and can easily see the percentage points and where our child falls on the bell curve. My question is this &#8211; our state is above average when compared to the country and my child&#8217;s school is above average in the district (like one of the best schools in the state). As I prepare a position for our IEP request, how can I verbalize that my child might range between 17% and 32% on the Woodcock subtests,, but between the SD and the fact that our child&#8217;s peers are well above the national average. Your help is so appreciated! I already bought a couple of books, but I&#8217;m not sure if I can afford to keep buying the publications to get an answer. Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Ann:&nbsp; My child seems to be not eligible for SPED because our state indicates the child &#8220;has to be below 12%&#8221;. This sounds like such a load to me <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/eligibility-below-grade-level-dont-they-look-at-local-vs-national\/\">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":[1348],"class_list":["post-20454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-e"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20454","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=20454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23672,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20454\/revisions\/23672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}