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It is a FEDERAL timeline and is CALENDAR days not school days (common school district trick - they didn't lke it when I laughed at them for that one but it was stupidly funny - I had researched every different thing Wiz struggled with, did they honestly think I hadn't researched this process too? Seriously???) and the state may shorten the timeline but they cannot make it longer.
Yes it has changed over the years here ... legally.... but MN does less than the federal mandate so they can say school days because in the end it still adds up to less than the federal guide. so the bottom line is to make sure you know the amount of days allowed. In the district we worked in... we wrote the day that the evaluation was due ON THE permission to assess form so that every staff member and the parents all knew. It is not good to be out of compliance and we always tried to avoid that for everyone concerned. You can ask them up front... so when is the last possible date this will be completed??? and then write that on the perm. to assess form so you can remember.