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Every deadline, and the authority behind it

The product counts twenty-one clocks. Sixteen come from regulation. The other five are district policy: no day count for them exists in law, and the product labels them as policy wherever it shows the date.

Source. Counts, triggers, citations and configurability come from the product’s clock and citation registries.Where a claim carries no verified citation the badge says so rather than the page implying one.

Each clock states the event that starts it, the authority behind it and how that authority was verified, and whether a district may change the number.

Every deadline, what starts it, and who set it

21 clocks. For each one: the event that starts the count, the authority behind it and how that authority was verified, and whether a district may change the number. Two of them go further: no legal provision addresses their timing at all.

School days are counted against this district’s calendar and skip breaks, closures and non-instructional days. Calendar days are counted straight through, including weekends and breaks.

Ceilings: the work must be done by then16 of 21

A maximum. Finishing sooner is always compliant, so the product may hold a district to a tighter internal target than the law requires — and says so on the row where it does.

Decide whether to evaluate

20 school days

Starts when: The date the district receives the referral request (receipt date must be documented).
Authority: pendingOSPI proposed rule — CR-102, WSR 26-09-120 (would amend WAC 392-172A-03005). NOT YET ADOPTED. Followed by the product, and NOT presented to a district as settled law.
The rule in force: 25 school days. The product’s default is tighter than the law allows. A tighter internal target is a choice, and it is not the legal limit.
District may change it: Yes, up to the 25 the rule allows.
Watch for: Internal deadline, tighter than the maximum the rule currently allows. Do not present 20 as the law.

Evaluation report delivered to the parent

35 school days

Starts when: The date written consent for the evaluation is received.
Authority: verifiedESHB 2557, 2026 c 34 §2 (effective 2026-06-11)
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Delivery, not completion. Screen-sharing or reviewing it at the meeting does not count.

Eligibility determination MEETING held

40 school days

Starts when: The date written consent for the evaluation is received.
Authority: verifiedESHB 2557, 2026 c 34 §2 (effective 2026-06-11)
District may change it: Yes.

File due process to contest the evaluation, or fund the IEE

15 calendar days

Starts when: The date the parent requests an independent evaluation at public expense.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-05005(2)(c) — independent educational evaluation
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Calendar days — holidays and breaks do not pause this. Funding itself has no day count.

Initial IEP meeting held

30 calendar days

Starts when: The day after the eligibility determination meeting.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-03105(2)(a) — initial IEP
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Calendar days, bounded by a meeting that is itself measured in school days. Two units, back to back.

Services begin after initial IEP consent (district target)

30 calendar days

Starts when: The date the parent consents to the initial provision of services (consent granted, not declined).
Authority: No day count exists in law This is a district policy timer. The product labels it as policy wherever it shows the date, and does not cite a statute for it.
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: District policy. No day count exists in law between parental consent and services beginning — the rule is simply that services begin as soon as possible. Do not present this as a legal deadline.

IEP annual review

12 months

Starts when: The prior IEP date.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-03110(3)(a) — IEP review
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: WA sets no day count — "periodically, but not less than annually". A 12-month interval, not a day math.

Triennial reevaluation

3 years

Starts when: The eligibility determination meeting date (per OSPI) — not evaluation completion, and not the IEP meeting.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-03015(2) — reevaluation
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Anchored to the eligibility determination meeting (OSPI FAQ A4). A triennial computed from the IEP date drifts later every cycle.

Manifestation determination review

10 school days

Starts when: The decision to change the placement — not the removal date, and not the incident.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-05146(1) — manifestation determination
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Runs from the decision to change the placement — not from the incident, and not from the first day of removal. Where no decision date is recorded, the incident date is used, which produces an earlier deadline.

Interim alternative educational setting — maximum

45 school days

Starts when: The start of the interim alternative educational setting.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-05149(1) — interim alternative educational setting
District may change it: Yes.

Tier 2 minimum documented intervention window

60 school days

Starts when: The intervention start date on the Tier-2 plan.
Authority: No day count exists in law This is a district policy timer. The product labels it as policy wherever it shows the date, and does not cite a statute for it.
District may change it: No — fixed by the authority above.
Watch for: District policy. No day count exists in law for a minimum Tier-2 intervention window before a referral decision. This is the district's own documented duration, not a statutory deadline, and a district may set it shorter or longer.

60 calendar days

Starts when: The date the 504 referral is received.
Authority: No day count exists in law This is a district policy timer. The product labels it as policy wherever it shows the date, and does not cite a statute for it.
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: District policy. No day count exists in law for a §504 evaluation decision — do not cite one.

Transfer-in IEP: adopt the prior IEP or develop a new one

30 calendar days

Starts when: The date the student registers and commences attendance in the receiving district.
Authority: No day count exists in law This is a district policy timer. The product labels it as policy wherever it shows the date, and does not cite a statute for it.
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: District policy. WAC 392-172A-03105(4)/(5) states no day count — comparable services run from the transfer-in date until adoption or a new IEP. Do not cite a statute for this number.

Part C → B: decide whether to evaluate

25 school days

Starts when: The transition planning conference — not a parent referral, and not the date of any request.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-02080 — transition from Part C to preschool (Part B)
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Distinct from the ordinary referral clock: the conference is the trigger, not a request for evaluation.

EL identification for a newly enrolled student

10 school days

Starts when: The day the student registers and commences attendance — not the day the Home Language Survey comes back.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-160-015(2) — EL identification, newly enrolled students
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: A late Home Language Survey does not extend this clock.

EL placement notice to the parent

30 calendar days

Starts when: The beginning of the school year (identified before it) — or the date of placement (identified during it).
Authority: verified20 U.S.C. §6312(e)(3)(A)–(B) — parent notice of EL program placement (ESEA/ESSA §1112(e)(3))
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Two clocks. 30 days from the start of the school year, or 2 weeks from placement for a mid-year identification.

Floors: the time must be given4 of 21

⚠ A minimum, and the direction matters. Shortening one of these does not make a district safer; it removes time or entitlement a student is owed. The product never counts one down as though finishing early were an achievement.

Parent review time before the eligibility meeting

5 school days

Starts when: The date the evaluation report is provided to the parent.
Authority: verifiedESHB 2557, 2026 c 34 §2 (effective 2026-06-11)
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: A minimum. The meeting may not be held sooner than this — waivable only in writing, per meeting.

Parent notice before an IEP or eligibility meeting

10 calendar days

Starts when: The scheduled meeting date, counted backwards.
Authority: No day count exists in law This is a district policy timer. The product labels it as policy wherever it shows the date, and does not cite a statute for it.
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: District policy. No day count exists in law for parent notice of an IEP or eligibility meeting. IDEA §300.322(a) and WAC 392-172A-03100 require notice early enough to ensure an opportunity to attend and state no number, so ten calendar days is the district's own target and a district may set it shorter or longer.

Special-education eligibility ends (age-out)

22 years

Starts when: The end of the school year in which the student turns 22 — not the 22nd birthday, and not age 21.
Authority: verifiedRCW 28A.155.020 (as amended by SSB 5253 — 2025 c 256 §3, eff. 2025-07-27)
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: An entitlement, not a deadline. A district may serve longer, never shorter. Graduation with a regular diploma remains a separate, independent terminating event.

Part C → B transition planning conference

90 calendar days

Starts when: The child's third birthday — counted backward. The conference must be at least 90 days before it.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-02080 — transition from Part C to preschool (Part B)
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: Runs backward from the third birthday. The due date is the last day the conference can still be timely.

Fixed dates, tied to a day1 of 21

Neither a ceiling nor a floor: the obligation lands on a specific date.

Part C → B: IEP developed AND being implemented

0 calendar days

Starts when: The child's third birthday. The IEP must be in effect on that day, not merely written.
Authority: verifiedWAC 392-172A-02080 — transition from Part C to preschool (Part B)
District may change it: Yes.
Watch for: A hard date, not a window. Services must be running on the third birthday — a drafted IEP is not enough.

Why the product counts school days for you

The same count, run twice against the same academic year from two different start dates. This is one clock of 9 counted in school days; the gap is widest here, and every one of them behaves this way.

Eligibility determination MEETING held — 40 school days

2026-09-28 → 2026-11-30 63 calendar dayswindow contains the Thanksgiving break
2026-12-07 → 2027-02-23 78 calendar dayswindow contains the Winter break and Midwinter break

A difference of 15 calendar days on the identical statutory count. A coordinator counting on a wall calendar gets a different answer depending on the month, which is the arithmetic the product removes.

estimate A representative Washington academic year (2026-27) — a composite, not any district’s published calendar. Measured against it: 177 instructional days between 2026-09-08 and 2027-06-18. Counts, triggers, citations and configurability are read from the product’s clock and citation registries; spans are computed with its own school-day arithmetic.

Text equivalent: each school-day count and the calendar time it consumes in two different windows of the same year.
Deadline	School days	State	Calendar days, from late September	Calendar days, from early December
Decide whether to evaluate	20	policy	29	43
Evaluation report delivered to the parent	35	statute	51	64
Eligibility determination MEETING held	40	statute	63	78
Parent review time before the eligibility meeting	5	statute	7	7
Manifestation determination review	10	statute	15	28
Interim alternative educational setting — maximum	45	statute	70	85
Tier 2 minimum documented intervention window	60	nofix	105	106
Part C → B: decide whether to evaluate	25	statute	36	50
EL identification for a newly enrolled student	10	statute	15	28
Services begin after initial IEP consent (district target)	30 calendar	no day count in law (district policy)	—	—
Parent notice before an IEP or eligibility meeting	10 calendar	no day count in law (district policy)	—	—
Tier 2 minimum documented intervention window	60 school	no day count in law (district policy)	—	—
	60 calendar	no day count in law (district policy)	—	—
Transfer-in IEP: adopt the prior IEP or develop a new one	30 calendar	no day count in law (district policy)	—	—

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