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WAC 392-172A-05005
WAC 392-172A-05005 is cited in Washington's Notice of Special Education Procedural Safeguards for Students and Their Families (October 2023) under the heading "Independent Educational Evaluations". What follows is the notice's own text under that heading, quoted verbatim from the captured source (tools/packets/washington-packet.txt), including the PDF text layer's line-wrap artifacts, which are reproduced rather than corrected. The notice cites the section as printed below. The section's own text, as the Washington State Legislature publishes it in Chapter 392-172A WAC, is not captured here and is listed on the state page as capture pending. All dates on this page are quoted from the source, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
As the notice states it
Heading, as printed: "Independent Educational Evaluations"
Citation line, as printed: "34 CFR §300.502; WAC 392-172A-05005"
"You have the right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of your child if you disagree with the evaluation that was conducted by your district. If you request an IEE, the district must provide you with information about where you may obtain an IEE and about the district’s criteria that apply to the IEEs."
Definitions
"• Independent educational evaluation (IEE) means an evaluation conducted by a qualified examiner who is not employed by the district responsible for the education of your child. • Public expense means that the district either pays for the full cost of the evaluation or ensures that the evaluation is otherwise provided at no cost to you."
Parent Right to an IEE at Public Expense
"You have the right to an IEE of your child at public expense if you disagree with an evaluation of your child conducted by your district, subject to the following conditions:"
"1. If you request an IEE of your child at public expense, your school district must, within 15 calendar days of your request, either: (a) file a due process hearing request to show that its evaluation of your child is appropriate or that the evaluation of your child that you obtained did not meet the district’s criteria; or (b) agree to provide an IEE at public expense."
"2. If your school district requests a due process hearing and the final decision is that the district’s evaluation of your child is appropriate, you still have the right to an IEE, but not at public expense."
"3. If you request an IEE of your child, your school district may ask why you object to the evaluation conducted by the district. However, the district may not require an explanation and may not unreasonably delay either providing the IEE of your child at public expense or filing a request for a due process hearing to defend the district’s evaluation of your child. You are only entitled to request one IEE of your child at public expense each time your school district conducts an evaluation of your child with which you disagree."
Parent-Initiated Evaluations
"If you obtain an IEE of your child at public expense or you provide the district with an IEE that you obtained at private expense:"
"1. Your district must consider the results of the IEE in any decision made with respect to the provision of a FAPE to your child, if it meets the district’s criteria for IEEs; and"
"2. You or your district may present the IEE as evidence at a due process hearing regarding your child."
Requests for Evaluations by Administrative Law Judges (ALJ)
"If an ALJ requests an IEE of your child as part of a due process hearing, the cost of the evaluation must be at public expense."
District Criteria
"If an IEE is at public expense, the criteria under which the evaluation is obtained, including the location of the evaluation and the qualifications of the examiner, must be the same as the criteria that the district uses when it initiates an evaluation (to the extent those criteria are consistent with your right to an IEE). Except as described above, a district may not impose conditions or timelines related to obtaining an IEE at public expense."
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Source
Notice of Special Education Procedural Safeguards for Students and Their Families (PDF), ospi.k12.wa.us; October 2023; retrieved Sep 13, 2026.
Change log
Sep 29, 2026 · Record created. Built by tools/render-citations.py from tools/packets/washington-packet.txt (capture of Sep 13, 2026): one record per section number the notice prints in full as WAC 392-172A-nnnnn; a citation printed as a range makes one record keyed on its first number, titled with the range as printed; a section cited under two headings carries both. Text is quoted, not summarized. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed 2026-09-29. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.