How do we audit an AI special-ed eligibility tool for IDEA integrity?

You audit it by measuring whether the tool's outputs are consistent and unbiased across student cohorts on a fixed probe set, documenting its limits, and confirming it supports rather than supplants the IDEA evaluation team's individualized judgment — since…

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You audit it by measuring whether the tool's outputs are consistent and unbiased across student cohorts on a fixed probe set, documenting its limits, and confirming it supports rather than supplants the IDEA evaluation team's individualized judgment — since IDEA's procedural rights require human determination. Reproducible cross-cohort measurement plus a clear human-in-the-loop role is the evidence. Planisphere produces that behaviour record without student PII where designed; the eligibility decision and IDEA procedure remain the school's, and this is not legal advice.

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The mark behind the answer.

IDEA protects students — their records, their civil rights, their access. When an AI sits in an eligibility, accommodati…

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Start with the free sandbox. Planisphere measures model behaviour and emits a reproducible, sha-pinned record — it does not certify, file, or give legal advice.

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When IDEA asks for proof, hand over records — not assurances.

record the duty · seal the receipt · verify offline

Planisphere records each duty event — an output marked, a disclosure shown, a review made — and seals it into a receipt that verifies offline against our published keys. You send hashes, never content. A record is evidence a third party can check; it is not a certification and not a legal determination.

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