About IEPClock
Know the deadline. Send the letter.
IEPClock started with a frustration Eric ran into while helping a friend figure out whether her son's school district had actually missed the deadline for his special-education evaluation. Every forum and blog post gave a different number — 30 days, 45 days, 60 days — with no citation, and the district's own paperwork never stated a deadline at all.
So he built something better. IEPClock is a free, no-account-required tool that shows you exactly where your child's evaluation stands against IDEA's federal 60-day clock — and drafts the formal letter to send if the district has missed it, citing the exact regulation.
Eric has spent years building small, single-purpose reference tools rather than working in special education — his interest here is procedural, not legal or clinical. The federal evaluation timeline is public regulation, but no one had turned it into something a stressed parent could check in thirty seconds. He built IEPClock to fix that.
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How it works
Every tool on IEPClock is grounded in a documented, citable method — a published formula, an authoritative standard, or a well-established model. We don't approximate or invent numbers. If we can't cite a primary source for the logic, we don't publish the tool.
For IEPClock specifically, every date rule traces to a named section of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations (the IDEA implementing regulations) — never a paraphrase of “the law says.” We compute the federal floor only; if your state sets its own (typically shorter) timeline, that deadline can be earlier than what this site shows — see the scope note on the evaluation deadline tool.
Our commitments
- Free, no sign-up required. Every tool on this site is free to use with no account, subscription, or paywall.
- We show our work. Every tool explains its methodology, cites its sources, and surfaces assumptions — so you can verify the logic, not just trust the output.
- Honest about limitations. Where precision is limited or assumptions are required, we say so. Tools compute; they don't replace professional judgment.
- Kept current. Tools that use figures that can change over time carry a “last reviewed” date and are treated as an ongoing maintenance responsibility, not a one-time build.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or suggestions: hello@iepclock.com. Eric reads every message personally.