The IEP can look finished and still need clearer details.
The private evaluation criteria and school-response 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 says a private evaluation does not meet district criteria, evaluator criteria, assessment standards, or school needs.
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.
Which criteria the school says are not met and if those criteria were provided in writing.
Confirm the concern is evaluator qualification, assessment area, date, method, cost, location, or school relevance.
Look for records showing the team still considered school-related findings even if it disagreed with parts of the report.
Make sure the next request should ask for criteria, written response, PWN, or school evaluation data.
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
Criteria objection is too vague to answer
Evidence to check
The school says the private report does not meet criteria, but the response does not identify the criterion, missing data, or effect on the IEP decision.
Parent-safe next step
Ask the school for the criteria, specific mismatch, and written response to school-related recommendations.
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.
Private evaluation report
Upload the assessment areas, evaluator credentials, dates, methods, recommendations, and school-impact findings.
School criteria or response
Add the district criteria, IEE criteria, meeting notes, email, PWN, or refusal language.
IEP pages affected
Include evaluation, present levels, goals, services, accommodations, and parent request pages tied to the report.
First written request
"Please identify the criteria the private evaluation does not meet, the specific report sections at issue, what school-related findings the team considered, and any written decision or PWN tied to requested IEP changes."
Ask one question the team can answer.
"What criterion is missing, and does that prevent the team from considering any school-related findings?"
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 private evaluation criteria and school-response 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 criteria are not met but does not provide the criteria.
Request the criteria and the specific mismatch.
The report is rejected wholesale even though it includes school-related data.
Ask which findings were considered and which were not.
The parent assumes criteria disagreement means automatic bad faith.
Put the request in writing for the written basis and data before escalating.
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