The change record

Every page on this site carries its own change log. This page is the same record read across all of them, once a month: what the states changed in their own documents, what this project got wrong and corrected, and what was added. Each entry is short and links to the change log where the full account sits.

Three kinds of entry are kept apart, because they are different facts. A state revising its document is the state's doing. A correction is an error of ours, and is called one. A difference that came from how this project's tools read a document, with the document itself unchanged, is reported as that and never as a change by the state.

Where a state changed wording that a page quotes, the superseded wording is quoted beside the current. Every date is the date a source or a capture carries. Nothing here is a deadline calculation, and nothing here is legal advice.

2026-09Sep 1 to Sep 30, 2026

September 2026

The first issue. Three states changed documents these pages quote, and two addresses were withdrawn. Nine errors of this project's own were corrected. The discipline layer went from 38 jurisdictions to all 51.

What the states changed

North Carolina · Sep 25. NCDPI withdrew its July 2016 notice of procedural safeguards and published a new edition, its cover reading Updated July 2026, at a new address. The old address returned HTTP 404 on Sep 25, as did the Spanish edition's. This is a new edition and not the old file moved: it follows the federal model notice section by section. The page was rebuilt against it, and every quotation drawn from the notice was re-cut. The largest change is to appeals. The 2016 notice described a review within DPI; the 2026 notice describes none.

Was · July 2016: "If you or the LEA disagree with the judge’s decision in a due process hearing, you may appeal it to an impartial review officer with DPI within 30 days of receiving the decision."
Now · July 2026: "A decision made in a due process hearing (including a hearing relating to disciplinary procedures) is final, except that any party involved in the hearing (you or the public school unit) may appeal the decision by bringing a civil action"
Was · July 2016: "A state complaint must be filed within one calendar year of the alleged violation."
Now · July 2026: "The complaint must allege a violation that occurred not more than one year prior to the date that the complaint is received as described under the heading Adoption of State Complaint Procedures."

The 2026 notice also no longer carries the 2016 edition's lists of parent and legal resources. Three organizations those lists named appear in no current NCDPI source reviewed and were removed from the page; the contact details the 2016 lists printed are not reprinted. The page's change log sets out ten numbered findings, with the July 2016 wording kept on the record beside each. North Carolina's change log.

Rhode Island · Sep 22. RIDE rewrote the notice on mediation requests on its "When Schools and Families Do Not Agree" page, which now reads "This page last updated on August 26th, 2026." The nightly review first reported the difference on Sep 10. This is RIDE's change, not an error on the page.

Was: "Spanish and Portuguese translations will be made available soon."
Now: RIDE links a "Spanish Mediation Request Form" and a "Portuguese Mediation Request Form", and keeps the line "For help with other languages, please contact the RIDE Call Center at (401) 222-8999."

Rhode Island's change log.

Wyoming · Sep 22. WDE revised its Notice of Procedural Safeguards in place: same address, still dated May 2025. Two legal clinics that the earlier copy listed under one shared phone number now have a number each. The shared number is no longer printed by the notice and is not reprinted here. A further revision, which the file's own metadata dates Sep 21, 2026, corrected a heading in the table of contents.

Now: "University of Wyoming Family and Child Legal Advocacy Clinic – 307-766-3747" and "University of Wyoming Legal Services Clinic – 307-766-2104"
Was · contents: "Discipling"
Now · contents: "Disciplining"

Wyoming's change log.

Wyoming · Sep 25. WDE had published its notice at two addresses. The older one returned HTTP 404 on Sep 25 and is no longer linked. The address the page has always been captured from still serves the notice, unchanged since Sep 22.

North Dakota · Sep 25. NDDPI no longer publishes a separate Dispute Resolution page; its address returned HTTP 404 on Sep 25. The same material now sits in a section of the department's Special Education program page, and the source map points there. Nothing on the page was quoted from the withdrawn address. North Dakota's change log.

Corrections to these pages

Nine errors of this project's own. In each the state's document was unchanged, and each is set out in full in the page's change log on the date shown. Most have one cause: pages first captured by hand in August were later re-captured by a recorded, repeatable method, and the comparison showed what the hand capture had altered.

Page	What was wrong	What it says now
Texas Sep 3	Seven quotations reproduced run-together words, such as "willensure" and "legallybinding", as though TEA's notice printed them. An extraction tool had made them.	Six quotations re-cut to the notice's own wording; the seventh split where a page header interrupts the sentence.
New Jersey Sep 3	The source map quoted nj.gov's "Page Last Updated" line as the date of two landing pages. It is a save stamp: both moved within three weeks of capture with no other visible change.	Both entries now say the state publishes no date for those pages.
Nebraska Sep 4	A quotation ended with a period that neither Nebraska source prints.	The quotation ends at "to file a civil action", as the notice does.
New Hampshire Sep 4	Two quotations dropped characters the handbook prints: an en dash, and the apostrophe in a heading.	Both restored; the heading reads "THE CHILD’S PLACEMENT".
New Mexico Sep 4	The notice's title was quoted in ordinary capitalization. Its cover prints the title in full capitals.	The title is named, not quoted.
Ohio Sep 4	Four quotations corrected. Run-together words had been kept as though the document printed them, and an appeals address was quoted as one span that no mechanical reading of the document produces.	The quotations read as printed, for example "if your educational agency has one." The address is quoted as three spans.
Virginia Sep 5	An August revision was appended to the page and not integrated: two sections appeared twice, and a row still read "not quoted here" after its gap was closed.	The duplicate is removed and the placement row quotes 8VAC20-81-210 J 1.
Tennessee Sep 10	A dropped space ran the word "and" into the department's mailbox name, publishing an email address that does not exist.	"Email completed forms to the school district and", followed by the address as the form prints it.
Wisconsin Sep 10	A quotation read "atsolving", recorded at the time as the booklet's own.	"at solving", as the booklet prints it.

Published and deepened

Discipline layer. Thirteen jurisdictions were added on Sep 1, bringing the discipline layer to all 51. Forty-two pages were deepened to full pages during the month; 44 of 51 were full at its end. Seven remain baseline pages: Alaska, the District of Columbia, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.

Section records. Washington's 33 section records, one page for each statute and rule section the Washington page cites, were published Sep 29.

Repeatable capture. At the start of the month 25 of the 51 state pages could be re-captured from their sources by a recorded method that produces the same text each time. At the end, 49 could. Arizona and Minnesota cannot yet, which means a change at either is noticed only when someone looks by hand.

Where a state's documents disagree

Recorded in September. Both versions are reproduced on the page named, and the disagreement is reconciled by no one, this project included.

North Carolina. On a state complaint filed on the same issue as a pending due process complaint, NCDPI's Dispute Resolution page and its July 2026 notice say different things. The page quotes both.

Dispute Resolution page: "A formal complaint filed on the same issue(s) as contained in a petition for a due process hearing will not be investigated."
July 2026 notice: "the State must set aside any part of the State complaint that is being addressed in the due process hearing until the hearing is over."

Maryland. One contact's email address renders on MSDE's page with its domain doubled. The page publishes the address the link itself carries, and records the discrepancy.

Illinois, discipline. 105 ILCS 5/10-20.14 is published as two texts at one address. They disagree on which section governs bullying prevention and on the scope of the reciprocal-reporting system, and the state does not say which governs. Illinois's change log.

Wisconsin, discipline. Wis. Stat. § 120.13(1) names two different appeal officers for the same decision: "the state superintendent" in the appeal clauses and "the department" in the required contents of the hearing notice. Wisconsin's change log.

What looked like a change and was not

The review compares each fresh capture of a source with the last one held, and a difference is only a difference until someone reads it. Most of September's came from this project's own tools reading an unchanged document differently. They are listed because a record that left them out would overstate how closely it watches.

Montana, Texas, Alabama. The same PDF, read under a different build or mode of the text-extraction tool, opens or closes the gaps between words. No state changed a word. The build is now pinned, and a capture stops if the pin does not match.

New Jersey, Massachusetts. A wider capture took in more of each page than an earlier, narrower one had. The documents were unchanged.

Four standing mismatches. On Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana and New Mexico, the page and its source are both correct and a few facts on the page still will not verify mechanically, because of how the extraction tool reads that document. Each was accepted in September as a documented tradeoff, and is not counted as a change by the state.

Open at the end of the month

District of Columbia. Since Sep 24, one quotation from OSSE's notice differs from a fresh capture by a single space. Whether OSSE's file was re-flowed or the extraction differs is not yet decided, and the page is unchanged until it is. Separately, OSSE's Office of Dispute Resolution page stopped carrying its street-address fields between Aug 30 and Sep 24. The street address is still printed elsewhere on that page, and what the state page says of it is unchanged.

Written from the pages' own change logs and from the retained captures of each source, read for this issue. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed 2026-10-01. Corrections on the record: hello@fieldassembly.net.