Main Library
This library contains CADRE resources as well as State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources. Please note that CADRE makes no endorsement of the State, Lead Agency and Parent Center resources included here, nor of any policies, procedures, processes, or documents specific to any item.
VFN - Fact Sheet Administrative Complaint
Cindy Swain coordinates special education complaint investigations for the Texas Education Agency. She currently manages the state's IEP facilitation initiative in Texas and serves on the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities and the State Task Force for Children with Special Needs. As a member of CADRE's Intensive Facilitated IEP Project, Cindy is especially interested in improving school outcomes for students with disabilities through facilitated IEP team meetings. She served as a classroom teacher, administrator, and college professor for 25 years before coming to the Texas...
Doug McDougall has been active in alternative dispute resolution activities for over 20 years. He has worked as a community mediator, provided dispute avoidance services through a Covenant of Right Relations with faith based communities as well as ADR systems and implementation design with the California Department of Education. Doug is committed to providing options for individuals and organizations to access ADR processes early and often. Video of Voices from the Field: Doug McDougall
Patricia Williams is a consultant with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction who works in the area of special education procedural compliance. She is the coordinator for the State IDEA complaint process and is the liaison to the Due Process Hearing System. Patricia is a former WDPI liaison to the WI Special Education Mediation System. She served as one of the CADRE Exemplar Wisconsin Coordinators for development of the Wisconsin Exemplar Profile development. The interviews below were conducted in 2010 as part of CADRE's Exemplar Initiative . Clip 1: What is the one thing you know now...
WA - Complaint Procedures Checklist
WA - Dispute Resolution: The Citizen Complaint Process
WA - Letter to District - Complainant Response
WA - Letter to District - Notice of Complaint
WA - Letter to Parent - Acknowledgement of District Response
WA - Response Letter to Complainant (Parent)
WA - Response Letter to NonParent
WA - Special Education Citizen Complaint
WA - Tips for Districts When Responding to Citizen Complaints
- Download WA-10 Tips handout for Districts.pdf (204.88 KB)
WI - Birth to 3 Program State Complaint Process
WI - Complaint abeyance letter to district & parents
- Download WI-97 Complaint Abeyance.pdf (42.89 KB)
WI - Complaint Closing letter acknowledging that all non-compliance has been corrected - to district
- Download WI-101 Closing.pdf (60 KB)
WI - Complaint closing letter to district and parent when agreement has been reached
- Download WI-110 Resolution_res.pdf (43.21 KB)
WI - Complaint closing letter to district and parent when complainant does not wish to proceed with complaint
- Download WI-111 WITHDRAW_FMT.pdf (71.43 KB)
WI - Complaint form for parent - release of info from the parent for access to school records
- Download WI-108 RELEASE_form.pdf (3.39 KB)
WI - Complaint letter (to parent) re: public record release w/personally identifiable data deleted
- Download WI-106 Public Records.pdf (42.34 KB)
WI - Complaint letter to district and parents re: extension for mediation
- Download WI-103 Extension for mediation.pdf (43.52 KB)