turns out there is actually a state statute staying that 2 interventions need to be tried before a child is referred to special ed, but the interventions can be waived at the discretion of the school, and can't be used to deny an evaluation (doesn't say anything about "delay"). This seems to be completely contrary to the US Dept of Ed memo, which says that interventions cannot delay an evaluation. The school had no specific plan about interventions, and no talk about any plan. so I was left wondering if they were going to plan anything or not, or if 6 months from now I would inquire about these "interventions" and either get blank stares, or they would say that the teacher used a graphic organizer 2 times and it seemed to help (with no real, objective data or progress monitoring)--kind of like what happened with DS and the "pencil grip".
