Preventing changes to IEP?

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My son is currently in a county run Autism unit outside his normal school district having been moved there after his elementary school failed so badly to provide for him.
The district now wants to bring him back to his old school and claim they now have an equivalent program even though we know better. They created this 'program' to avoid bussing him to another school outside the district.

They have indicated their intention to bring him back, but have not yet called an IEP meeting to do so.
I have heard that we can ask for a hearing to prevent this move. Do we need to wait until they call an IEP meeting and attempt to change it, or should we act first?

If they do call a meeting, do we refuse to sign the new IEP, or sign it and mark that we disagree?

Just have your "ducks in a row" before the meeting. Document what your current school does and all the amount of time and recourses currently committed to him. Also if you can get a copy of his “teacher” qualifications, experience and training in spectrum issues. Then you will have a factual basis to see if they can provide and appropriate education at his base school.

They cannot change his placement without agreement of the IEP team including you without using special “process”

bookwormde

getting an advocate can help........our son's district tried to claim that they could educationally plan for our son-they even hired a new teacher.....the bottom line, though, was that it was in my son's best interest to be in a smaller environment with more services than the regular district could ever provide...........even being in education, i would never have been able to adequately fight the system without my son's advocate.