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Special Education in Ontario, Kindergarten to Grade 12 Draft The IPRC Review
Request for a Review / Dispensing with the Annual Review
At any time after a placement has been in effect for three months, a request for an IPRC review may be made by:
• the school principal with written notice to the parent;
• the parent in a written request to the principal; or
• the director of education of the educating board (in purchase-of-service
situations).
A request for an IPRC review cannot be made more often than once every three months. An IPRC review meeting must be held once within each school year, unless the principal of the school at which the special education program is being provided receives written notice from the parent dispensing with the annual review.
(See Ontario Regulation 181/98, subsections 21 (1), (2), (3), and (4)) Timelines for the IPRC Review
The IPRC review operates under the same timelines as the original IPRC process. Within fifteen days of a principal’s giving written notice to the parent for a review or of the parent’s written request to the principal
for a review, the school principal must let the parent know, in writing, approximately when the IPRC review will take place.
(See Ontario Regulation 181/98, subsection 21(5)) Attendance at the IPRC Review
The same people who attended the original IPRC meeting may attend the IPRC review. If a special education program and/or special education service has been purchased from another school board, a representative of the purchasing board may be present.
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