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How TPA Ventures compares.
Three honest comparisons against the ways districts draft IEPs today. Each one lists what the alternative does well, where it falls short, and what does not change: the IEP team still decides.
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TPA Ventures vs. manual IEP authoring
Most IEPs are still written by hand: a case manager reads a 20 to 40 page evaluation, retypes scores, and composes goals from memory or last year's plan. TPA Ventures keeps the educator in charge of every word while removing the retyping, the copy-paste errors and the missed dates.
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TPA Ventures vs. general-purpose AI chat tools
General-purpose chat assistants are capable writers, and many teachers already use them to draft goals. They were not designed for IEPs: they do not know the student's data unless it is pasted in, they can produce plausible but wrong standards codes, and pasting student records into a consumer account can conflict with FERPA and district data agreements.
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TPA Ventures vs. legacy special education software
Established IEP systems do an important job: they hold the legal record, enforce state forms and produce compliance reports. Most were built as forms engines. They tell staff which fields are required, not how to fill them. TPA Ventures works alongside your system of record and does the drafting those systems were never designed to do.
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What every comparison has in common
- TPA Ventures drafts from the student's own evaluation data and cites the source of every baseline. It never invents a score.
- Every goal is checked for condition, behavior, criterion and measurement method before it reaches the team.
- Student data is covered by a signed NDPA or state DPA, hosted only in the United States, and never used to train models.
- Eligibility, services and placement remain decisions of the IEP team under 34 CFR § 300.321.
TPA Ventures drafts; your team decides. Every goal, accommodation and notice is reviewed and finalized by certified staff and parents. TPA Ventures does not make eligibility or placement determinations and does not replace the IEP team required by 34 CFR § 300.321.
Cut IEP drafting time by 60% while strengthening legal defensibility.
See how TPA Ventures drafts standard-aligned goals from raw psych evaluations in under 3 minutes.