Interim Alternative Educational Setting
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A temporary educational placement (up to 45 school days) for a student with a disability who has been removed from their current placement due to certain serious behaviors: carrying a weapon, possessing drugs, or inflicting serious bodily injury. The student must continue to receive FAPE and progress toward IEP goals in the IAES.
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A review that must occur within 10 school days when a student with a disability is facing a disciplinary removal of more than 10 days. The IEP team must determine whether the behavior was caused by or substantially related to the child's disability, or was a direct result of the school's failure to implement the IEP.
The right of every child with a disability to receive special education and related services at no cost to the family. "Appropriate" means the education must be reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child's circumstances, as established by the Supreme Court in Endrew F. v. Douglas County (2017).
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