Complaint Summary
Date Findings Report Sent
May 8, 2026
Case number
26-0486
School District
Weston Public Schools (single student)
Person filing the complaint
Advocate
Grade Level
High School
Allegation(s)
Issue 1: Issue 1 was not investigated as it did not include a potential violation of state or federal special education law.
Issue 2: The complainants alleged that the District failed to provide appropriate specialized reading instruction for the Student in accordance with her IEP, specifically the “explicit, systematic, and multisensory reading instruction” outlined in annual goals 7 and 8 in her IEP dated January 14, 2025, which was in effect from the start of the 2025-2026 school year through the PPT meeting held on January 14, 2026. (34 CFR §§ 300.323(c)(2) and 300.17(d) and RCSA § 10-76d-1(a)(1))
Issue 3: The complainants alleged that the District predetermined the end date of reading instruction to be the end of the school year in June 2026, prior to providing the service, when recommending adding the service to the Student’s IEP at the PPT meeting held on March 11, 2026. (34 CFR § 300.320(a))
Issue 4: Issue 4 was not investigated as it did not include sufficient facts or evidence to support the claim.
Issue 5: The complainants alleged that the Student’s progress report on IEP goals and objectives from October 2025 inaccurately reported mastery for Goal 1, Objective 7. (34 CFR § 300.320(a)(3))
After the filing of this state complaint, a PPT meeting was held on March 23, 2026, in which Issue 5 was discussed. The complainants confirmed with this investigator on April 22, 2026, that the allegation in Issue 5 was no longer a relevant issue for purposes of the complaint investigation. Therefore, no further investigation into Issue 5 was conducted.
Conclusion(s)
Issue 1: Issue 1 was not investigated.
Issue 2: The Student’s reading goals and objectives identified explicit, systematic, and multisensory instruction. The goals were written as mastered following the mastery of the individual objectives. The skills identified in each objective systematically built upon each other with increasing complexity. Although the District did not identified a specific reading program used by the special education teacher to deliver the Student’s reading instruction during the 2025-2026 school year, the District did explain that the Student was provided with whole group, small group, and individual work tailored to the skills identified in her goals and objectives driven by progress monitoring data that included multisensory strategies. While it cannot be determined with certainty that the instruction provided to the Student aligned to the language in the IEP goals, a review of progress confirms that the special education instruction delivered to the Student resulted in meaningful progress. The Student mastered her goals and objectives as written in January 2026. A comparison of progress reports on IEP goals and objectives from November 2025 and January 2026, indicated that the Student progressed through the objectives and was able to demonstrate mastery of the objectives. In addition, the Student demonstrated growth on the NWEA assessments and earned above average grades across all subjects throughout the school year. Therefore, the District was not in violation of 34 CFR §§ 300.323(c)(2) and 300.17(d) and RCSA § 10-76d-1(a)(1) as it relates to the delivery of reading instruction. No corrective action is required.
Issue 3: The recording of the PPT meeting on March 11, 2026, confirmed that the PPT administrator recommended the Student’s specialized reading instruction to end at the conclusion of the 2025-2026 school year. This recommendation was made prior to the implementation of the newly recommendation service and goals and objectives and without data on the Student’s progress and response to the specialized instruction. The District is unable to determine an end date for a special education service without data to support that the Student no longer requires specialized instruction. Therefore, it is concluded that the District violated 34 CFR § 300.320(a) when determining an end date to a special education service without data on the Student’s progress and present levels of performance in response to the delivery of the specialized instruction. However, since the filing of the state complaint, the District convened a PPT meeting on March 23, 2026, and the end date for the reading instruction was revised to align with the Student’s other special education services and goals and objectives as well as the Student’s annual review date. Therefore, no corrective action is required.
Issue 4: Issue 4 was not investigated.
Issue 5: Issue 5 was not investigated.
Corrective Action(s)
None