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CAVALIER 6

Cavalier, Pembina County, North Dakota
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👨‍🎓 385 students 📋 72 students with IEPs 🗣️ 0 parent reports ☎️ (701)265-8417
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🛟 How to fight for your child's IEP — and who to call

If CAVALIER 6 isn't giving your child the services they're legally owed, you have a clear, federally-protected path. Under IDEA these steps are the same everywhere — work them in order and put everything in writing.

Step 1

Request an IEP meeting — in writing

Email your child's case manager and the district's Director of Exceptional/Special Education. State the problem and the services you're requesting, and ask for a formal IEP-team meeting. Keep a copy of everything. District office: (701)265-8417.

Step 2

File a state complaint

If the district violated an IDEA rule in the last year, file a signed written complaint with your state's special-education dispute-resolution office (below). The state must investigate and issue a decision — usually within 60 days.

Step 3

Ask for mediation

Request free, voluntary mediation through the state — a neutral, trained mediator helps you and the district reach a written agreement. It's faster and less adversarial than a hearing.

Step 4

File for a due-process hearing

For serious disputes over identification, evaluation, placement, or FAPE, file for a due-process hearing — a formal legal proceeding. Consider getting an advocate or attorney first (see Protection & Advocacy below).

⚖️ Where to file & get free help in North Dakota

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction — Special-Education Dispute Resolution
File a state complaint (IDEA), request mediation, or a due-process hearing
· 🔗 visit site

File a written state complaint within 1 year of the violation, request free mediation, or file for a due-process hearing. Start here if the district is out of compliance.

North Dakota Protection & Advocacy Project
Protection & Advocacy — free legal help for special-education & disability rights
☎️ 701-328-2950 · 🔗 visit site

Your state's federally-funded disability rights agency. Free information, advice, and sometimes legal representation for IEP and special-education disputes.

📚 Know-your-rights resources

Your legal footing: Under IDEA every eligible child is entitled to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) and an IEP built to their needs. Section 504/ADA also bar disability discrimination.

• Parent Training & Information Center (PTI): free coaching for your state — find your center »

• CADRE (national dispute-resolution center): cadreworks.org »

• U.S. Dept. of Education OSEP (administers IDEA) & Office for Civil Rights for 504/ADA complaints.

Tip: bring a written list of requests to every meeting, ask for the district's response in writing, and never sign an IEP you don't agree with — you can consent to parts and dispute the rest.

💪 Not just your child? Use strength in numbers.

If other CAVALIER 6 families are hitting the same wall, it's a district problem — and numbers change the outcome. Send this page to your social-media contacts and Facebook parent groups, and ask other parents at drop-off and pickup: is this happening to you too? Gather the stories here so the pattern is documented. Once you can prove a bigger issue: wear matching-color shirts for solidarity, protest peacefully, pack school-board meetings, reach out to government officials, give interviews, and send press releases to the local newsrooms below to bring the media in.

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📣 Take action for CAVALIER 6

Systemic problems get fixed when they become public. Below is local press near this district and the officials responsible for Pembina County.

📰 Local newsrooms

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Cavalier Chronicle
Local newspaper
2 mi
· 🔍 find “Cavalier Chronicle” online
Walsh County Press
Local newspaper
28 mi
· 🔍 find “Walsh County Press” online
The Walsh County Record
Local newspaper
28 mi
· 🔍 find “The Walsh County Record” online
Cavalier County Republican
Local newspaper
34 mi
· 🔍 find “Cavalier County Republican” online
Larimore Leader-Tribune
Local newspaper
62 mi
· 🔍 find “Larimore Leader-Tribune” online
Grand Forks Herald
Daily newspaper
66 mi
· 🔗 site
KGFE (PBS)
PBS — TV
67 mi
· 🔍 find “KGFE (PBS)” online
WDAZ-TV (ABC)
ABC affiliate — TV
74 mi
· 🔗 site
Devils Lake Daily Journal
Local newspaper
74 mi
· 🔍 find “Devils Lake Daily Journal” online
Towner County Record-Herald
Local newspaper
75 mi
· 🔍 find “Towner County Record-Herald” online
Traill County Tribune
Local newspaper
90 mi
· 🔍 find “Traill County Tribune” online
Turtle Mountain Star
Local newspaper
91 mi
· 🔍 find “Turtle Mountain Star” online
Griggs County Courier
Local newspaper
96 mi
· 🔍 find “Griggs County Courier” online

🏛️ Officials for Pembina County

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction
State education agency — special-education oversight · ND
· 🔗 site
Office of the Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum
Governor · ND
· 🔍 find “Office of the Governor of North Dakota” online
U.S. Dept. of Education — Office for Civil Rights
Disability discrimination complaints (504/ADA) · National
✉️ OCR@ed.gov · ☎️ 1-800-421-3481 · 🔗 site
U.S. Dept. of Education — OSEP
Federal special-education oversight (IDEA) · National
✉️ OSEP@ed.gov · ☎️ 1-800-872-5327 · 🔗 site