The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The IAES placement and service 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.
This page is for moments when the school places or proposes to place your child in an interim alternative educational setting and you need to understand what services, supports, and records should be clarified. 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.
Who decided the IAES and what written record explains the decision.
Confirm the IAES plan addresses general curriculum access, progress toward IEP goals, services, and behavior supports.
Look for records showing transportation, related services, accommodations, assistive technology, and communication needs are handled.
What timeline, MDR, special-circumstances, appeal, or local legal question should be verified before relying on the plan.
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
IAES is named but the service plan is missing
Evidence to check
The discipline notice says the student will attend an alternative setting, but the parent has no schedule, service grid, related-service plan, or BIP update.
Parent-safe next step
Request that the team identify the written IAES service plan and the records the team used to choose the setting.
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.
IAES notice or placement decision
Upload the letter, MDR outcome, special-circumstances notice, expulsion packet, or hearing-related placement record.
Service plan for the IAES
Include schedules, provider records, assignments, transportation details, related-service logs, and progress-monitoring notes.
IEP, FBA, BIP, and incident records
Add the IEP, behavior records, evaluation data, incident report, and parent concerns that explain the student's needs.
First written request
"Please provide the IAES placement record, service schedule, related-service plan, transportation plan, behavior supports, and progress-monitoring records the team is relying on."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"How will this IAES let the student access instruction, receive IEP services, make goal progress, and address the behavior that led to removal?"
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 IAES placement and service 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 student is moved to an alternate setting without a written service plan.
Ask what services, supports, schedule, and progress data will apply in the IAES.
The IAES plan does not mention the IEP goals or BIP.
Ask how the setting will support goal progress and address the behavior so it does not recur.
Transportation or access to related services is unclear.
Ask who is responsible for transportation, providers, accommodations, and missed-service documentation.
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