Advocacy & Legal Resources

Special Education & Civil Rights Law

• Massachusetts department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE)
• Complaints and Disputes information from ESE
• Resolving a disagreement within the IEP team: Bureau of Special Education Appeals
• Complaints about Compliance: Program Quality Assurance
• Civil Rights Complaints: Department of Education Office of Civil Rights

• Concord Carlisle SEPAC – full of legal and procedural guidance
  • Time Factors In Special Education
  • Requesting an Independent Evaluation
• Difference Between a 504 & an IEP (from Understood.org)
• WrightsLaw
• CPS Office of Student Services Parent Handbook (Spring 2015)
• ESE’s Parent’s Guide to Special Education

Income-based Free or Sliding Scale Legal / Advocacy Services