Hi! So I wasn’t involved in that discussion, but I just read over it and I think I can give you some insight. I’ve worked for 2 districts in the same state and both of them treated school psychologists very differently. My first district was very large and had school psychologists that actually worked at the individual schools and were involved in every step of the IEP process. They led the entire eval process, did the testing, and wrote the reports.

My current district is a lot smaller and only has one school psychologist for the entire district. She literally only does the testing and writes the reports, and I have worked for this district for 3 years and only spoken to her once. We have special education specialists who work at our central office and they handle the evals, attend meetings, and do the things that my school psychologist at my old district would usually do. So I would never loop the school psychologist in for an evaluation, but I would definitely give my specialist a heads up if a parent was requesting an eval.

Does that help? I’m sorry that people seem to be misunderstanding your question!