The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The informal removal and lost-instruction 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.
Start here when a student with an IEP is repeatedly sent home, held out of class, picked up early, placed in the office, or put on shortened days without clear suspension paperwork.
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.
Each informal removal date, duration, location, reason, and attendance code.
Confirm instruction, services, meals, transportation, peer access, or IEP supports were missed.
Look for records showing behavior, health, staffing, or safety supports were tried before removal.
Make sure the next request should ask for records, team review, or qualified local help.
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
Informal removals are adding up without a record
Evidence to check
The student was sent to the office or picked up early seven times, but the file does not show attendance codes, duration, missed services, or supports used.
Parent-safe next step
Ask for a date-by-date informal removal record and IEP team review.
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.
Removal timeline
Upload dates, times, reasons, attendance codes, who requested pickup, and where the student was placed.
IEP, BIP, service, and health pages
Add the supports tied to the reason for removal.
Missed instruction and service records
Include classwork, service logs, progress reports, and parent communication.
First written request
"Please provide the records for each informal removal, including date, duration, location, reason, attendance code, instruction missed, services missed or provided, and supports used before removal."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"What pattern appears when every informal removal is listed by date and duration?"
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.
Organize the meeting record
The audit helps parents pull the draft pages, notices, data, and unresolved requests most likely to matter in the room.
Focus the agenda
It identifies the question that should be answered before the meeting moves on.
Leave with the next step in writing
Parents can use the result to ask what will be revised, refused, or documented after the meeting.
Check if the informal removal and lost-instruction 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 it was not a suspension because no suspension form was issued.
Request the attendance, location, instruction, and service records for each removal.
Pickups happen repeatedly without a team review.
Ask the IEP team to review the pattern and supports.
Lost instruction and services are not counted anywhere.
Ask what record shows what the student missed and how it will be addressed.
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