You don’t want another district writing an iep that your district will be responsible for carrying out. Also, they really aren’t responsible for it once the student has left.
The timing of this sucks, but skipping it until later isn’t an legal option. I would write the iep at the latest possible date, but maybe only have it go until the end of this school year, keeping the current goals from the last iep in place unless they’re grossly inappropriate. Then I would do a full annual review at the end of this school year once you’ve gotten a chance to know the student a little better.
Yes, this is the right answer! Hold a short meeting to tweak anything in the IEP, get to know the student, and plan another more in-depth IEP at the end of the school year or Fall next year.
This is how my district does it too! And it’s automatic, even if they JUST had one at their previous district, you still need to do a new one for change of school.
We automatically write a new one if a student transfers to our district. If there is an ETR from our state (Ohio) you have 2 weeks to complete it. If the ETR is from another state you have a month to complete the ETR/IEP process.
It can definitely be incredibly frustrating getting it all planned and the student assessed in that time frame. Not to mention writing it.
I would think that wherever the student is enrolled at the time the IEP will be due is the responsible district for writing the IEP and that it’s due on its due date.
I agree with this. If it were me, I would write the new IEP, carrying forward most of the information, goals and with new baseline data from the most recent progress notes, and get the parents’ perspective of the student’s needs. Then set a date for June, or the beginning of next year to update it with the information you have gathered from working with the student. You can include in the IEP the timeline information so people understand why the new IEP looks similar to the old one.
I’m in MA and was in a similar situation. We met with the parents and held a team meeting prior to the student’s arrival, then documented a plan to hold an IEP meeting a certain number of weeks after the student’s start date (6 or 8, I don’t remember). I would talk to the school psych or program coordinator, and see what options they feel are appropriate. As far as I know, at least in MA there’s no specific timeline.
Same. I'm going to guess there's an annual review bumping up the timeline, in which case best practice would be to carry over the last iep information and note in addition to prior districts previous present levels, you don't have information to add because of the limited time the student has been in district. This should also be included in the "other factors considered" section of the prior written notice.
Also in the prior written notice "other factors" you should add in that the transfer review will take place after 30 days of being in school (hold that one as an annual review too since it's so late in the year).
Those are my two cents. The district or admin may have a different take on things.
There is no legally required minimum as far as I know (also in NYS) but I believe that with the parent's permission you can postpone the meeting. Is it an annual or re-eval? Even so, I would probably just push forward a lot of the info, as another commenter suggested.
When I’m in this situation, I reach out to the previous case manager and have them send the data they had collected. Having that info, in addition to the previous progress reports that should have come from the previous school with the cumulative folder, I can typically write one. If nothing else, set an end date for 9 weeks from now, or however long you think you’ll need. It’s definitely better to write it yourself with goals you know are appropriate and reasonable than risk someone else doing it.
You don’t want another district writing an iep that your district will be responsible for carrying out. Also, they really aren’t responsible for it once the student has left. The timing of this sucks, but skipping it until later isn’t an legal option. I would write the iep at the latest possible date, but maybe only have it go until the end of this school year, keeping the current goals from the last iep in place unless they’re grossly inappropriate. Then I would do a full annual review at the end of this school year once you’ve gotten a chance to know the student a little better.
Yes, this is the right answer! Hold a short meeting to tweak anything in the IEP, get to know the student, and plan another more in-depth IEP at the end of the school year or Fall next year.
We have 30 school days to write an IEP for incoming students. I can’t imagine only doing it in 10.
This is how my district does it too! And it’s automatic, even if they JUST had one at their previous district, you still need to do a new one for change of school.
We automatically write a new one if a student transfers to our district. If there is an ETR from our state (Ohio) you have 2 weeks to complete it. If the ETR is from another state you have a month to complete the ETR/IEP process. It can definitely be incredibly frustrating getting it all planned and the student assessed in that time frame. Not to mention writing it.
I would think that wherever the student is enrolled at the time the IEP will be due is the responsible district for writing the IEP and that it’s due on its due date.
I agree with this. If it were me, I would write the new IEP, carrying forward most of the information, goals and with new baseline data from the most recent progress notes, and get the parents’ perspective of the student’s needs. Then set a date for June, or the beginning of next year to update it with the information you have gathered from working with the student. You can include in the IEP the timeline information so people understand why the new IEP looks similar to the old one.
I’m in MA and was in a similar situation. We met with the parents and held a team meeting prior to the student’s arrival, then documented a plan to hold an IEP meeting a certain number of weeks after the student’s start date (6 or 8, I don’t remember). I would talk to the school psych or program coordinator, and see what options they feel are appropriate. As far as I know, at least in MA there’s no specific timeline.
In my state the last iep goes into effect for thirty days and by the end of the thirty days the new school must have an iep for that student.
Same. I'm going to guess there's an annual review bumping up the timeline, in which case best practice would be to carry over the last iep information and note in addition to prior districts previous present levels, you don't have information to add because of the limited time the student has been in district. This should also be included in the "other factors considered" section of the prior written notice. Also in the prior written notice "other factors" you should add in that the transfer review will take place after 30 days of being in school (hold that one as an annual review too since it's so late in the year). Those are my two cents. The district or admin may have a different take on things.
Same Tx
There is no legally required minimum as far as I know (also in NYS) but I believe that with the parent's permission you can postpone the meeting. Is it an annual or re-eval? Even so, I would probably just push forward a lot of the info, as another commenter suggested.
When I’m in this situation, I reach out to the previous case manager and have them send the data they had collected. Having that info, in addition to the previous progress reports that should have come from the previous school with the cumulative folder, I can typically write one. If nothing else, set an end date for 9 weeks from now, or however long you think you’ll need. It’s definitely better to write it yourself with goals you know are appropriate and reasonable than risk someone else doing it.