{"id":26401,"date":"2021-07-08T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=26401"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:16:37","slug":"8-faqs-about-compensatory-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/8-faqs-about-compensatory-education\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Frequently Asked Questions about Compensatory Education"},"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=\"8%20Frequently%20Asked%20Questions%20about%20Compensatory%20Education\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><div id=\"attachment_26402\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26402\" class=\" wp-image-26402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/woman.pensive.query_.400.230-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"223\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skeptical woman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the COVID school closures, did your child&#8217;s school continue to provide the special education and related services in your child&#8217;s IEP?<\/p>\n<p>Did the school find ways to provide your child with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Understand Your Child&#8217;s Right to Compensatory Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Education published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/covid\/2020.0312.USDOE.QandA.Services.pdf\">Questions and Answers on Providing Services to Children with Disabilities During a COVID-19 Outbreak. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The USDOE advised that if a school could not provide the services in a child&#8217;s IEP and the child regressed (lost knowledge and skills), the school will need to provide compensatory education services to reverse the losses.[references below]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepare for Comp Ed Meetings <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As schools prepare to reopen, expect the IEP team (including you) to schedule a meeting or meetings to discuss your child&#8217;s eligibility for compensatory education. Assuming your child is eligible, the IEP team needs to decide what compensatory services your child needs.<\/p>\n<p>Before the IEP team can determine the comp ed services your child needs, the team needs data on your child&#8217;s skills and needs. An evaluator needs to assess:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>present levels of academic achievement and functional performance<\/li>\n<li>the child&#8217;s needs for special education and related services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After reviewing data from the assessments, the IEP team will need to develop a written plan that describes your child&#8217;s compensatory education services and how the school will provide these services. This plan should become part of your child&#8217;s IEP.<\/p>\n<p>As your child&#8217;s advocate, you need to learn all you can about compensatory education <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>now<\/strong><\/span>. Your child has no more time to waste.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/covid\/2020.0813.COPAA.CompEd.FAQ.pdf\">8 Frequently Asked Questions about Compensatory Education<\/a> will help you identify the obstacles and pitfalls you may encounter. Study these questions and answers carefully.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is compensatory education?<\/li>\n<li>How is the amount of compensatory education awarded?<\/li>\n<li>How do we manage claims that the remedial education planned for all students will suffice for students in special education?<\/li>\n<li>What if the school district argues that all students suffered from a reduction in resources generally because of school closings?<\/li>\n<li>Will all children with IEPs be entitled to compensatory education because they lost the in-person teaching expected in their IEPs?<\/li>\n<li>How will school districts determine which children get compensatory education?<\/li>\n<li>What if the school argues that they have a reduced funding environment that makes it hard to provide FAPE?<\/li>\n<li>What are the options for special education dispute resolution in COVID-19 compensatory education from your state or at a statewide level?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/covid\/2020.0813.COPAA.CompEd.FAQ.pdf\">8 Frequently Asked Questions About Compensatory Education in the Time of COVID-19<\/a> (6 pages) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copaa.org\/\">Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Make copies of this document to share with the members of your child&#8217;s IEP team.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/covid\/2020.0813.COPAA.CompEd.FAQ.pdf\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/covid\/2020.0813.COPAA.CompEd.FAQ.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/covid\/2020.0312.USDOE.QandA.Services.pdf\">Questions and Answers on Providing Services to Children with Disabilities During a COVID-19 Outbreak<\/a> (March 2020)<br \/>\n\u201cIf a child does not receive services after an extended period, a school must make an individualized determination whether and to what extent compensatory services may be needed . . . to make for any skills that may have been lost.\u201d (Answer to Question A-2),<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a child does not receive services during a closure, a child\u2019s IEP team (or appropriate personnel under Section 504) must make an individualized determination whether and to what extent compensatory education may be needed . . . including to make up for any skills that may have been lost.\u201d (Answer to Question A-3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As schools reopen, expect the IEP team to schedule a meeting or meetings to discuss your child&#8217;s eligibility for compensatory education. As your child&#8217;s advocate, you need to learn all you can about compensatory education now. Your child has no more time to waste. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/8-faqs-about-compensatory-education\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"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":[174,1565,1554,1575,57,18],"tags":[1291,1293,112,1297,171],"class_list":["post-26401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-compensatory-education","category-coronavirus","category-covid-19","category-fape","category-ieps","tag-advocacy","tag-idea-2004","tag-iep","tag-section-504","tag-special-education-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401","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=26401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26414,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401\/revisions\/26414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}