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I need some advice. Last week we received a foster placement. It was a sib group of three. The two girl are in school. The oldest has significant developmental delays. She is 11, but she acts younger than my 7 year old. When the Sw withdrew her from her old school they gave her the IEP, but to enroll in the new school she need the MFE ( I think that is what it is called) that shows her testing before she is allowed to be enrolled in the school here. Problem is the SW contacted the former school and they said that therre isn't one. The new school says that if she has an IEP than there has to be a MFE and she can not start school without it. So now we are stuck. The SW is trying to work it out, but the 11 yo has now been out of school for 2 weeks. Her sister started today and that really upset the older one becasue she wants to go to school so bad. She already has issues because her sister is capable of doing things she can't and now her sister can go to school and she can't. This girl needs to be in school for so many reasons. Not only becuase of the eductaion, but her mom kept her out of school a lot to take care of her 9 month old baby brother. She is having a hard time letting go of the parenting, so I think school would be a HUGE help.Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get out FD in school?
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Can't the school just go by her current IEP until new testing is done or her former testing can be found? I would think that some testing/evaluation had to be done in order to get an IEP, so the old school SHOULD have it and be required to hand it over.
When our foster-to-adopt kids arrived, the local school agreed to implement their current IEPs and would update in the spring with new testing. (It turned out the test results hadn't improved, so the IEP remained as it was.)
Good luck!
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