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This library contains CADRE resources as well as State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources. Please note that CADRE makes no endorsement of the State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources included here, nor of any policies, procedures, processes, or documents specific to any item.

UT - FAQ About Special Education Formal IDEA State Complaints

UT - State Complaint Form

VFN - Fact Sheet Administrative Complaint

Cindy Swain coordinates special education complaint investigations for the Texas Education Agency. She currently manages the state's IEP facilitation initiative in Texas and serves on the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities and the State Task Force for Children with Special Needs. As a member of CADRE's Intensive Facilitated IEP Project, Cindy is especially interested in improving school outcomes for students with disabilities through facilitated IEP team meetings. She served as a classroom teacher, administrator, and college professor for 25 years before coming to the Texas...
Doug McDougall has been active in alternative dispute resolution activities for over 20 years. He has worked as a community mediator, provided dispute avoidance services through a Covenant of Right Relations with faith based communities as well as ADR systems and implementation design with the California Department of Education. Doug is committed to providing options for individuals and organizations to access ADR processes early and often. Video of Voices from the Field: Doug McDougall
Patricia Williams is a consultant with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction who works in the area of special education procedural compliance. She is the coordinator for the State IDEA complaint process and is the liaison to the Due Process Hearing System. Patricia is a former WDPI liaison to the WI Special Education Mediation System. She served as one of the CADRE Exemplar Wisconsin Coordinators for development of the Wisconsin Exemplar Profile development. The interviews below were conducted in 2010 as part of CADRE's Exemplar Initiative . Clip 1: What is the one thing you know now...

WA - CAP Matrix Shell

WA - Complaint Procedures Checklist

WA - Dispute Resolution: The Citizen Complaint Process

WA - Letter to District - Complainant Response

WA - Letter to District - Notice of Complaint

WA - Letter to Parent - Acknowledgement of District Response

WA - Response Letter to Complainant (Parent)

WA - Response Letter to NonParent

WA - Special Education Citizen Complaint

WA - Tips for Districts When Responding to Citizen Complaints

WA - Tips for Parents When Organizing Reply

WI - Birth to 3 Program State Complaint Process

WI - Complaint abeyance letter to district & parents

WI - Complaint Closing letter acknowledging that all non-compliance has been corrected - to district

WI - Complaint closing letter to district and parent when agreement has been reached

WI - Complaint closing letter to district and parent when complainant does not wish to proceed with complaint

WI - Complaint extension letter to a specified date

WI - Complaint form for parent - release of info from the parent for access to school records

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