About Accord IEP.
Accord IEP, LLC is a Texas software company building tools for Texas special education — funding determination under TEA's New Intensity of Services Funding Model, and service-and-goal tracking for the people delivering services and the directors responsible for them.
Who's building Accord.
Founder, Accord IEP.
Melissa spent nearly five years at Amplio building and delivering edtech products for hundreds of districts across the country.
Before that, she earned a doctorate in speech-language pathology and the ASHA certification, then worked as a bilingual SLP in Dallas ISD Title I schools — including evaluating students and writing IEPs.
What Accord does.
Accord ships two capabilities today. Service-and-goal tracking gives providers a daily logging workflow and gives administrators a dashboard comparing what each student's IEP prescribed to what's been delivered. Funding determination makes it feasible for providers to classify every student under TEA's New Intensity of Services Funding Model and for districts to consolidate the determinations into one dataset ready for the state.
Why here.
Texas has a special education staffing crisis that hits harder than most of the country — three-quarters of elementary and middle schools couldn't fill their SPED vacancies last year. On top of that, the state just rewrote how special education funding works, in a framework unique to Texas that takes effect for the 2026–27 school year. Every student in special education has to be classified into the new tier-and-service-group structure before the first day of school, and the average Texas district has multiple campuses and multiple case managers who'll need to do that work in parallel, on students they share. TEA's classification tool was built for a single user in a single session, and that isn't the shape of the work in front of a Texas SPED department.
We think Texas needs a tool built for what Texas SPED departments actually do.
Send us a note about your district and what you'd like to talk about. We'll get back to you.