Mediation is available to parents and school districts both for disagreements and for disputes for which impartial due process hearings have been requested. Parents and school district may bring a lawyer. Mediators are trained and are attorneys . Mediation sessions are held Monday-Friday, in Concord, in the Department of Education building or in the local district at a place convenient to both parties, if so requested. Length of mediation sessions varies considerably, from 2 to 8 hours.
All participants come prepared to stay for the entire session.
Mediation sessions are confidential. Each participant signs the handwritten agreement at the mediation session.