{"id":22906,"date":"2018-07-05T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=22906"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T20:08:19","slug":"can-the-school-delay-the-evaluation-over-the-summer-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-the-school-delay-the-evaluation-over-the-summer-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the School Delay the Evaluation Over the Summer Break?"},"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=\"Can%20the%20School%20Delay%20the%20Evaluation%20Over%20the%20Summer%20Break%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>I am a special education teacher. There are only 35 days of school left and I have gotten 4 requests for initial testing. There are only 45 days including weekends until the end of the school year. Is it the expectation of the law that these all be completed by the last day of school? Or that we work into the summer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tutor.teacher.girl_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. ED Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) responded to a letter requesting clarification of the requirement for a timely initial evaluation under 34 CFR 300.301 (c)(1).<\/p>\n<p>There are exceptions to when the timeframe does not apply in 34 CFR 300.301(d), but &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>In Letter to Reyes, April 11, 2012, OSEP responded that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThere is no exception in 34 CFR 300.301(d) that would permit the applicable initial evaluation timeline to be suspended because of a school break.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe Office of Special Education Programs recognizes that conducting evaluation activities during extended breaks, such as the typical school\u2019s summer vacation, can be challenging for school districts, particularly if fewer staff members are available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nevertheless, the IDEA contemplates that the initial evaluation of a child suspected of having a disability not be unreasonably delayed so that eligible children with disabilities are not denied a FAPE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the Regulations in your <span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition<\/span>, on page 240.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Letter to Reyes<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/speced\/guid\/idea\/letters\/2012-1\/041012timelyintialeval1q2012.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/speced\/guid\/idea\/letters\/2012-1\/041012timelyintialeval1q2012.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a special education teacher. There are only 35 days of school left and I have gotten 4 requests for initial testing. There are only 45 days including weekends <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-the-school-delay-the-evaluation-over-the-summer-break\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22908,"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":[35,5,1367],"tags":[598,31,288],"class_list":["post-22906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eligibility","category-idea-2004","category-assessments-tests","tag-eligibility-determination","tag-evaluations","tag-school-evaluations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906","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=22906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23065,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions\/23065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}