Federal IDEA law is the floor. Here's what Florida adds on top — every rule cited to its source and versioned in our knowledge base.
Your full review checks these 3 Florida rules alongside all 23 federal IDEA rules.
In Florida the evaluation clock runs in school days: 60 school days from your signed consent to a completed evaluation. Weekends, holidays, and summer break don't count, so the calendar wait can be longer than it sounds — but the count itself is enforceable.
Your due-process rights in Florida — written notice before changes, your consent for evaluations, the right to an independent evaluation, and how to file a state complaint — live in one state rule.
Florida writes the federal IEP requirements into its own rulebook — in Florida documents you'll see "ESE" (Exceptional Student Education) instead of "special education," but the required contents of the IEP are the same checklist.
Every review also checks the full federal IDEA rules — the floor for every state, everywhere.