Letter Generator: Request Compensatory Services from School

We are approaching the one-year anniversary of when many schools closed for the COVID-19 pandemic last year. The governor officially closed all schools April 17, 2020, but many closed in the second week of March. Because there is a one-year deadline to file complaints with the Texas Education Agency to get compensatory education services, parents who believe their child needs these services due to school closures last year because of the pandemic should first send a request letter immediately to your child’s school. Please complete the form below which will generate a PDF of a letter you can download, print and mail to your child's school.

If after sending a request letter, the school does not respond or provide the services in a prompt manner, parents can use our letter generator to create a complaint to send to TEA. The letter must be sent before or by the date your school first closed and changed to remote learning.

Languages: this Request Compensatory Services from School resource is available in English and Spanish. Be aware that DRTx recommends that you provide your letter in a language understandable to the party or entity receiving it, which in most circumstances will be English.

Parents can complete the information in this form and it will generate a letter in PDF format that you can download and mail to the school.

"*" indicates required fields

Name *

First Last

Phone *

Email *

Address *

Street Address Address Line 2 City State ZIP Code

Your student's name *

First Last

Name of your Student's School *

Address of your student's school. *

Street Address Address Line 2 City State ZIP Code

Name of the Director of Special Education of Case Manager *

First Last

What are you requesting from the school?

Select one of the options below.

the COVID-19 supplement to my child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) required under new state law because I believe my student lost progress due to closures during the pandemic

the provision of compensatory education services to make up for the missed special education and related services my student experienced when schools were closed

Please select the issue(s) for which you are asking for compensatory services.

You may select as many as may apply. Please enter your best estimate on beginning and ending dates.

Issue 1: Did this happen with your child? If so, check the box.

My child received no special education services in a certain time frame.

Date no services began *

Date no services ended *

Issue 2: Did this happen with your child? If so, check the box.

My child only received partial special education services during a certain time frame.

Date partial services began *

Date partial services ended *

Issue 3: Did this happen with your child? If so, check the box.

My child received no related services within a certain time frame.

Date no related services began *

Date no related services ended *

Issue 4: Did this happen with your child? If so, check the box.

My child only received PARTIAL RELATED services for a certain time frame.

Date PARTIAL RELATED services began *

Date PARTIAL RELATED services ended *

Please add any specific problems with technology access, instruction, accommodations, modifications, timelines that further explain the four choices above. *

For example: “In the beginning of the shut down and switch to remote learning, the district only provided packets of work once a week that did not include student’s appropriate and agreed upon modifications reflected in his IEP. In late April, the district finally provided laptop, but there were access problems that took multiple days to identify and troubleshoot and then inappropriate packets were sent electronically through email with no scheduled direct instruction. This was drastically different than the services that general education students were provided during this time which included pre-recorded videos on YouTube and synchronous learning options.”

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Publication Code: ED40

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