Julie Weatherly featured an article in a journal titled In Case, Volume 48, Numbers 4-6; and in Volume 49, Numbers 1-2. The title of the article is Avoiding Legal Disputes in Special Education: 21 Training Points for Administrators. According to Weatherly, "The IDEA regulations require that school staff consider the results of indepenent educational evaluations obtained by parents. Thus, if the parents bring an outside or private evaluation to the meeting, appropriate 'consideration' must be given to it. Saying something like, 'we aren't going to even condider this report' is inappropriate and can lead to an argument that a procedural violation has occurred. Of course, consideration of an outside evaluation does not require that the evaluator's receommendations be incorporated into the IEP or programming for a child. However, school staff should be prepared to show that 'consideration' was given to the report and its results and recommendations"
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