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Parents accuse Douglas County schools of imposing Behavioral Intervention Plans without consent; cite prior OCR agreement
Summary
At the board meeting parents alleged district staff implemented a BIP for a ninth-grade student without parental consent, FBA, or IEP team action and cited a 2023 state complaint and an October 2024 OCR docket that required the district to stop informal enforcement of BIPs without written consent. Parents asked for district-wide review and training.
A Douglas County parent told the school board that her ninth‑grade son was placed on a Behavioral Intervention Plan after a single incident without a functional behavioral assessment, without an IEP team meeting and despite her explicit refusal to participate.
Janice Howard said school administrators told her an FBA had not been performed and that the district implemented the BIP "without parental consent and without evaluation and without an IEP…
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