Parent tells board her child's IEP lost 450 minutes of push‑in support and cites confidentiality breach

Casey Maldonado, parent of a Sitting Bull Academy student, told the Apple Valley Unified Board of Trustees that her daughter's Individualized Education Program (IEP) was altered to remove 450 minutes per week of push‑in support that the IEP team had agreed was appropriate.

Maldonado said she and her husband signed the IEP in good faith at the annual review, then later discovered the push‑in minutes were omitted from the document the teacher reviewed when classes began. She said an addendum request was scheduled, the psychologist who later handled the case told her she "had no idea what happened with those minutes because she didn't attend that IEP," and that another student's name appeared on her daughter's IEP — a confidentiality concern. "If someone could have just owned up to their mistakes and fixed it, I wouldn't be standing here today bringing this to your attention," Maldonado said.

Maldonado said the district later scheduled another IEP meeting after she contacted district staff, and a subsequent meeting resulted in corrections, but she said she had not signed the updated IEP because she wanted more time to review it and requested that the psychologist be removed from her daughter's case.

Trustee Renee Longshore acknowledged the parent's remarks and said she had been heard; the president told Maldonado that someone would look into the situation. The board did not take a formal action on the comment during the meeting.

The parent's statement raised two issues trustees may follow up on: whether documented IEP minutes match services delivered, and whether IEP confidentiality procedures were followed. Maldonado asked for district intervention to restore services and resolve her trust concerns with district staff.