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GUSTINE ISD

GUSTINE, Comanche County, Texas
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👨‍🎓 136 students 📋 18 students with IEPs 🗣️ 0 parent reports ☎️ (325)667-7303
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🛟 How to fight for your child's IEP — and who to call

If GUSTINE ISD 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: (325)667-7303.

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 Texas

Texas Education Agency — 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.

Disability Rights Texas
Protection & Advocacy — free legal help for special-education & disability rights
☎️ 512-454-4816 · 🔗 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 GUSTINE ISD 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 GUSTINE ISD

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

📰 Local newsrooms

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The Comanche Chief
Local newspaper
12 mi
The Dublin Citizen
Local newspaper
17 mi
De Leon Free Press
Local newspaper
20 mi
Hamilton Herald-News
Local newspaper
21 mi
Hico News Review
Local newspaper
24 mi
Stephenville Empire-Tribune
Local newspaper
28 mi
Goldthwaite Eagle
Local newspaper
29 mi
Brownwood Bulletin
Local newspaper
35 mi
Eastland County Today
Local newspaper
45 mi
Meridian Tribune
Local newspaper
45 mi
Glen Rose Reporter
Local newspaper
46 mi
Gatesville Messenger
Local newspaper
49 mi
Cross Plains Review
Local newspaper
50 mi
San Saba News & Star
Local newspaper
51 mi
The Clifton Record
Local newspaper
53 mi
Hood County News
Local newspaper
55 mi
Lampasas Dispatch Record
Local newspaper
55 mi
Copperas Cove Leader-Press
Local newspaper
58 mi
Coleman Chronicle
Local newspaper
60 mi
Killeen Daily Herald
Local newspaper
65 mi
Cleburne Times-Review
Local newspaper
68 mi
Breckenridge American
Local newspaper
69 mi
Palo Pinto Press
Local newspaper
70 mi
Brady Standard-Herald
Local newspaper
74 mi
Burnet Bulletin
Local newspaper
74 mi
The Community News
Local newspaper
75 mi
The West News
Local newspaper
76 mi
Hillsboro Reporter
Local newspaper
77 mi
The Belton Journal
Local newspaper
77 mi
KCEN-TV (NBC)
NBC affiliate — TV
77 mi
· 🔗 site
KWTX-TV (CBS)
CBS affiliate — TV
77 mi
· 🔗 site
KXXV (ABC)
ABC affiliate — TV
77 mi
· 🔗 site
KWKT-TV (FOX)
FOX affiliate — TV
77 mi
· 🔗 site
Waco Tribune-Herald
Local newspaper
77 mi
The Llano News
Local newspaper
79 mi
Weatherford Democrat
Local newspaper
80 mi
Albany News
Local newspaper
80 mi
Salado Village Voice
Local newspaper
81 mi
Temple Daily Telegram
Local newspaper
82 mi
The Graham Leader
Local newspaper
87 mi

🏛️ Officials for Comanche County

Office of the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott
Governor · TX
· 🔗 site
Texas Education Agency
State education agency — special-education oversight · TX
· 🔗 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