Imagine this conversation in a school office:

What a lovely girl. Since she's new here, she doesn't have a lot of friends yet, but she'll have lots of them in no time. Academically, we're just not sure where she is. We need to have her records, to know how she has been served in the past, and how we can best help her. If we place her with so and so , she'll receive such and such. On the other hand, she might be better served by being in such and such program. It doesn't appear that mom is much of an advocate for her or we'd have what we need already. The sooner we have those records, the better off this child will be.


That said, it may well be that the school can request transfer of records once a child has been registered. Given the name and location of the school, they should have no trouble obtaining the information they need. (Laws may differ from state to state on that, though)