What Should The IEP Team Do If A Child Moves To The LEA With No Records or IEP At All?

According to South Carolina's Office of Exceptional Children Policies and Procedures released April 6, 2009, the provision of the special education and related services the child needs in order to receive a free and appropriate public education and to progress in the general curriculum should not be withheld pending the receipt of records when the LEA knows the child has been identified as a child with a disability and has an IEP.

If the new LEA has no records and no documentation at all that the child was receiving special education services in the previous LEA, then the child must be placed in the general education setting until such time as the new LEA receives the documentation or conducts an initial evaluation.