When a parent files a state complaint or requests due process, one question determines the outcome: Can you prove FAPE was provided?Most districts can’t. Not because services weren’t delivered—but because the documentation doesn’t exist, isn’t organized, or doesn’t capture the right details. IEP meeting decisions go unrecorded. Parent contacts lack compliance timestamps. Observation walkthroughs miss critical SPED indicators. And when it’s time to defend your programming, the paper trail falls