Your child’s special education assessment will be treated the same as any student who transfers to a new school district.
The IDEA requires that “[a]ssessments of children with disabilities who transfer from one public agency to another in the same school year are coordinated with those children’s prior and subsequent schools, as necessary and as expeditiously as possible[.]”.[1] Your child’s previous school district should coordinate with their new school district to ensure completion of the evaluation.[2] However, please note that the timeframe for completing this evaluation is less clear: the assessment must be completed “as expeditiously as possible.”.[3] Typically, assessments must be completed within 60-days of receiving parental consent for the evaluation.[4] This time frame does not apply if the student transfers districts mid-assessment.[5] However, the school district the students transfers to must make “sufficient progress to ensure a prompt completion of the evaluation” and must arrange with the parent/guardian/other education rights holder “a specific time when the evaluation will be completed.”.[6]