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Community Montessori Inc

New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana
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👨‍🎓 487 students 📋 125 students with IEPs 🗣️ 0 parent reports ☎️ (812)948-1000
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🛟 How to fight for your child's IEP — and who to call

If Community Montessori Inc 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: (812)948-1000.

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 Indiana

Indiana Department of Education — Special-Education Dispute Resolution
File a state complaint (IDEA), request mediation, or a due-process hearing

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.

Indiana Disability Rights
Protection & Advocacy — free legal help for special-education & disability rights
☎️ 317-722-5555 · 🔗 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 Community Montessori Inc 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 Community Montessori Inc

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

📰 Local newsrooms

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Evening News and Tribune
Local newspaper
5 mi
The Courier-Journal (Louisville)
Daily newspaper
7 mi
· 🔗 site
WAVE (NBC)
NBC affiliate — TV
8 mi
· 🔗 site
WHAS-TV (ABC)
ABC affiliate — TV
8 mi
· 🔗 site
WKPC-TV (PBS)
PBS — TV
8 mi
WLKY (CBS)
CBS affiliate — TV
8 mi
· 🔗 site
WDRB (FOX)
FOX affiliate — TV
8 mi
· 🔗 site
The Courier-Journal
Local newspaper
8 mi
The Corydon Democrat
Local newspaper
19 mi
The Pioneer News
Local newspaper
25 mi
The Meade County Messenger
Local newspaper
31 mi
Henry County Local
Local newspaper
34 mi
Madison Courier
Local newspaper
36 mi
Paoli News-Republican
Local newspaper
37 mi
Jackson County Banner
Local newspaper
39 mi
Seymour Tribune
Local newspaper
42 mi
The News-Enterprise
Local newspaper
45 mi
Bedford Times-Mail
Local newspaper
51 mi
State Journal
Local newspaper
52 mi
The Anderson News
Local newspaper
53 mi
The LaRue County Herald
Local newspaper
54 mi
The Republic
Local newspaper
59 mi
The Herald
Local newspaper
61 mi
Lebanon Enterprise
Local newspaper
62 mi
Hancock Clarion
Local newspaper
62 mi
Harrodsburg Herald
Local newspaper
66 mi
The Herald-Times
Local newspaper
66 mi
Grant County News
Local newspaper
69 mi
Greensburg Daily News
Local newspaper
70 mi
The Herald Tribune
Local newspaper
73 mi
Hart County News-Herald
Local newspaper
74 mi
Central Kentucky News-Journal
Local newspaper
74 mi
Lexington Herald-Leader
Daily newspaper
74 mi
· 🔗 site
Boone County Recorder
Local newspaper
74 mi
The Advocate-Messenger
Local newspaper
75 mi
Jessamine Journal
Local newspaper
75 mi
WLEX-TV (NBC)
NBC affiliate — TV
76 mi
· 🔗 site
WKYT-TV (CBS)
CBS affiliate — TV
76 mi
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WTVQ-DT (ABC)
ABC affiliate — TV
76 mi
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WDKY-TV (FOX)
FOX affiliate — TV
76 mi
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🏛️ Officials for Floyd County

Indiana Department of Education
State education agency — special-education oversight · IN
Office of the Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb
Governor · IN
· 🔗 site
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