For schools and systems

The IEP Quality Improvement Program

Rubric-based independent review of a fixed sample of individualized education programs, scored against forty research-grounded conditions drawn from IDEA 34 CFR Part 300 and the peer-reviewed literature on IEP quality.

Monthly IEP Quality Audits

Twenty-one of the forty are compliance conditions, the requirements IDEA places on what an IEP must contain. The remaining nineteen are substantive conditions, holding the document to the standard the Supreme Court set in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District RE-1 (2017): an IEP must be reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child's circumstances, and its goals must be appropriately ambitious rather than merely more than de minimis. Reviewers never know which school or which author produced a document, and the sample size holds steady month to month, so the scores are comparable across the year. All handling is remote and FERPA-protected.

For the instructional leader

Monthly quality report

Compliance and substantive quality rates for the full sample, a domain scorecard, month-over-month trends, and ranked priority recommendations.

For the IEP author

Per-document summary

Which conditions each IEP met and missed, with plain-language notes on student impact and prioritized next steps for the person who wrote it.

How participation works

Participating schools enroll for the school year and submit a sample of redacted IEPs each month from September through May. A single review tells you where one document stands. A year of them tells you whether your practice is actually changing, which is the point of the Program.

The Program is built for organizations where a monthly sample represents a meaningful share of the IEP population: private and faith-based schools, single-site charters, and small to mid-size local education agencies.

How this funds free services for families

Ten percent of every school engagement fee is designated to the Family Audit Fund, which keeps the family IEP Audit, the Advocacy Toolkit, and every parent workshop free. Families never pay us anything.

We never accept payment from a school or district in connection with an individual child's case. Schools that enroll are purchasing a review of their own IEP quality across their system, never a position on any one student. Read our full transparency commitments.

Developing the leader, not just the documents

Schools that want the review paired with leadership development can look at the EDquity Leader Fellowship, a year-long program that develops your special education leader into a Certified IEP Quality Improvement Leader through monthly blind evaluations of your own IEPs, data-driven strategy seminars, and a leadership impact project.

Learn about the Fellowship

Interested in enrolling your school?

Reach out and we will talk through what a monthly sample looks like for your IEP population and what the year would cover.