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I'll attempt to answer your questions in order. 1. File a state complaint. That's your only leverage at this point. Your complaint/compliance issue would be that the school district is not complying with the requirement to have parent participation during the IEP process. 2. Paper train for your state complaint. Additional compliance issue: failure to provide PWN and failure to response to request. 3. You're going to have to force the consequences by filing a state complaint. 4. I find it hard that an initial IEP (which this is, correct?) does not have to be signed by the parent. Usually the start of providing special education services requires consent by signing the initial IEP. After the initial IEP, continuation of services in subsequent IEP documents can usually be done without parent consent (but this is state specific). If you are getting no response to your requests to be involved, their only motivation at this point will be a state investigation which will occur after you file a state complaint. 5. Again, your only recourse at this point is a state complaint. In addition to the above, also list "failure to comply with 60 day timeline." The state is going to have to be the entity that provides the consequences. Usually state complaints are not hard to file and do not necessitate an advocate or attorney. The state provides you with a form. If you have questions about it, you can call the special education department (compliance division?) of your state department of education. They should be willing to assist you in completing the form. They might also have a list of agencies (free) to which they can refer you.

I spoke with the director of special education at my daughter's district today about how I was treated at her IEP meeting. I told her I requested prior written notice with an explanation of why my proposal was refused and she said "how could we provide prior notice before the meeting was held?" I said prior means before a change is implemented or refused, and she said "ok..." I said "I can send you the language from IDEA if that helps". She didn't like that suggestion...

You need to get on your state department of education's website and see if they have a list of when Prior Written Notices are required (some do). If you can't find one, call the compliance section of special education and ask if a Prior Written Notice would be required in this instance. If yes, get the name of the compliance officer you spoke with, ask if there if is a policy or guideline that you could print out/see, and forward both to the director of special education.

It happens. I would send them a link to what they should already know. I have a friend who printed out IDEA & gave it to the sp ed director. This was a bigger school district (1000's of students). Put it in writing so you have a paper trail. You can start the email: Confirming our conversation on 5/11 when I requested Prior Written Notice. This is a link to what PWN is...