Welcome back to Season Three! When a student is locked up, districts hold the key to ensuring they receive special education. In this episode, Jeremy and Erin discuss how to move forward with a student’s IEP plan in the context of incarceration. The discussion includes a state complaint from Ohio where a district was found to have denied an incarcerated student FAPE after they did not revise his IEP and then failed to implement the plan as written. While the district took steps to support the student, they did not adequately document those actions. They provide valuable pointers on how to coordinate with different detention facilities in order to provide services to students, and discuss the importance of leaning into the individualized nature of IEPs in order to respond to the student’s changed circumstances.
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