This article is to help users with the Comparable Services form.

Form information

The Comparable Services Form is an optional form available in the Transfer event and is used to document comparable services provided to a transfer student until a new IEP is implemented. 

Comparable services, as defined by DESE, would include the special education and related services listed on the student’s IEP from the sending school district.  The receiving school would need to provide those same services, as closely as possible, to the student in their new school under the following circumstances (according to DESE):

If there is any delay in determining acceptance or rejection of the previous IEP, if the previous IEP is rejected and the IEP team has not convened to write the new IEP or if there is any delay in convening an IEP team to develop and implement an IEP, the public agency, in consultation with the parent, provided FAPE to the child, including services comparable to those described in the previous IEP, until such time as the public agency adopts the previous IEP or convenes an IEP team meeting to develop a new IEP that is consistent with Federal and State regulations.

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