The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The basis-of-knowledge and suspected-disability discipline record can look official while still leaving out the details a parent needs to understand what the school is promising, refusing, or measuring.
The free audit checks the language in the actual IEP against the student's documented needs so you can focus on the pages and questions that matter most.
Start with the situation you are actually in.
Use this page if your child was not yet found eligible before a discipline incident, but the school may have had written concerns, an evaluation request, or staff concerns before the behavior occurred. First pull incident packet, removal dates, IEP, FBA, BIP, MDR notice, service plan, and parent input. Do not assuming the 10-day rule, manifestation result, or stay-put answer without the actual discipline record and local help.
This page is for preparing clearer school questions, not for deciding legal claims. The strongest next step is usually a specific written request tied to the IEP page and the data behind it.
The audit can review the IEP pages you include.
It does not stop at one concern or a short checklist. When the relevant pages are included, the audit reviews major IEP sections for unclear language, missing context, documentation gaps, and issues that may deserve a written question.
Evaluations and Present Levels
Check that the IEP describes the student's needs, strengths, baseline data, and current performance.
Goals and Progress Monitoring
Confirm goals are measurable, tied to documented needs, and supported by clear progress-reporting methods.
Services and Accommodations
Look for supports that are individualized, specific enough to follow, and clear about provider, frequency, duration, and setting.
Placement and Access
Review how the plan addresses classroom access, least restrictive environment, behavior, communication, and related-service needs.
Parent Concerns and Team Decisions
Make sure parent input, school refusals, Prior Written Notice, and important meeting decisions are documented clearly.
Procedure Questions to Verify
Identify notice, timeline, refusal, or vague-commitment questions that may need local verification before a parent relies on them.
What this review pays attention to
Along with the included IEP pages above, the audit pays special attention to these issues that may be relevant to this concern. These are examples of extra scrutiny, not the limits of the review.
Check if relevant written parent concerns, evaluation requests, or staff concerns existed before the behavior that led to discipline.
Confirm any exception may apply, such as evaluation refusal, services refusal, or a prior evaluation finding no eligibility.
Look for records showing the school is treating the student like a child without IDEA protections without explaining the basis-of-knowledge analysis.
Make sure an expedited evaluation request during discipline should be documented separately.
A useful result points to a record, not a panic spiral.
This is the kind of parent-facing output the page is built around: a specific IEP section, the reason it deserves review, and one calm next step before any broader escalation.
Finding
Pre-incident records may matter
Evidence to check
Two months before the incident, the parent emailed the assistant principal and teacher saying the student needed special education evaluation for behavior and reading, but the discipline packet does not mention the email.
Parent-safe next step
Ask the school to review if the pre-incident written concern affects the discipline protections analysis.
Upload only the records needed for this concern.
You do not need a perfect binder or every school record. Start with the current IEP pages tied to the issue, then add only the few records that explain the concern most clearly.
Written parent concerns
Upload emails, letters, forms, meeting notes, or messages sent before the incident that expressed need for special education or related services.
Evaluation and eligibility records
Include evaluation requests, consent forms, refusals, eligibility decisions, prior evaluations, or records showing services were refused.
Teacher or staff concern records
Add behavior reports, MTSS/RTI records, referrals, counselor notes, or staff communications that may show specific concerns were elevated.
First written request
"Please review the attached pre-incident written concerns, evaluation requests, and staff records and explain if the school believes IDEA basis-of-knowledge discipline protections apply or an exception applies."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"What dated record existed before the conduct, and how did the school decide if basis-of-knowledge protections apply?"
Get clearer questions from your actual IEP.
You do not need to compare every page to a checklist. Upload the relevant pages and let the audit help organize sections that may need clarification, weak language, or possible next questions.
Review the IEP FirstWhat you get from the audit
The result is a prioritized review of the document, not another generic article.
Choose the first issue
The audit helps parents sort the concern that should be raised first from the concerns that can wait.
Anchor the concern in records
It points back to the IEP page, progress data, notice, or school message that makes the issue concrete.
Write the next request
Parents get language for a focused written ask instead of a broad complaint.
Check if the basis-of-knowledge and suspected-disability discipline record is specific enough for a parent to understand and the team to implement.
Which IEP page, evaluation, progress report, service log, or school notice should be checked first.
Which missing detail should become the first written question.
Which legal, deadline, consent, or state-specific issue should be verified before relying on the page.
How the free audit works
Upload the IEP you want checked
Use the current document from the school. You do not need to highlight it, organize it, or know which section is wrong first.
The audit reviews the pages you upload
When those pages are included, it reviews goals, services, accommodations, progress monitoring, parent concerns, and procedure questions for unclear language or missing context.
Get prioritized findings
See which sections may need review first, which page to ask about, and what to raise with the school.
Reasons parents run this audit
If any of these sound familiar, the written IEP deserves a closer look.
The school says the child had no IEP, so IDEA discipline protections cannot apply.
Ask if the school reviewed basis-of-knowledge records from before the incident.
Parent concerns were verbal, scattered, or not easy to find.
Gather dated written records and avoid claiming the school 'knew' without the documents.
An evaluation request happened after the discipline incident.
Separate basis-of-knowledge records from the expedited-evaluation process during discipline.
You do not have to sort through the IEP by yourself.
Start with the concern. When you want document-specific help, upload only the relevant IEP pages and the few records that explain the issue.
Review the IEP First