Have your Iowa IEP checked against the rules Iowa sets, free.
Chapter 41 of Title 281, the Iowa Administrative Code, is the state’s layer on IDEA, worked by area education agencies. Upload your child’s IEP for a detailed review of the concerns, evidence and questions to bring to the school.
In Iowa, the Iowa Department of Education oversees those rules.
Free IEP review · No credit card
How your IEP is reviewed
Start with your child’s IEP.
Add evaluations and progress reports if you have them. The review reads every page you upload.
See the concern. Check the evidence.
Each finding comes with the wording behind it and the page it came from. If a detail cannot be confirmed, your review says so.
Know what matters. Know what to ask.
Every concern is explained, with why it matters and a question to bring to the school. The review contacts no one; it stays in your account.
The review is automated. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace an advocate or attorney.
What Iowa requires
Who evaluates is Iowa’s biggest change: the AEA conducts the full and individual initial evaluation, after general education interventions.
- Full and individual initial evaluation60 calendar days281 IAC 41.301(3)(a)
- IEP meeting after a needs finding30 days281 IAC 41.323(3)
- Removals before services are owed10 school days281 IAC 41.530(4)(c), (d)
- AEA and LEA review the removal10 school days281 IAC 41.530(5)(a)
Have the pages in your child’s file read back to you, free.
The review reads every page you upload and returns each finding in plain English, with one question for the team and the page it came from.
Review my IEP — freeFree, no card. It reads your pages and contacts no one.
- 281 IAC chapter 41: Iowa’s special education rulesThe full chapter.
- Rule 281—41.301: the initial evaluationSixty days, verbatim.
- Iowa Department of Education: dispute resolutionThree routes, ranked.
- The federal evaluation rule (34 CFR 300.301)The floor every state builds on.