That is not true everywhere. In all the states of which I have knowledge, parent signature is required for any change in the IEP, and if you reject or decline to sign the proposed IEP, the old IEP stays in force under stay put.
This is what just happened w/ us. School set up a "conciliation conference" but couldn't actually drop services. (they wanted to drop direct OT and services for speech articulation but leave other things). I think they would have had to go to due process to fight us, but not sure. I got the impression that they are used to parents agreeing w/ whatever they suggest and signing whatever they want signed, so when we wouldn't sign it (even though we had very good reasons why) they were flabbergasted and didn't even know how to handle the situation.
