Are Districts Required to Give Parents Literacy Screening Results and Tell Them About Progress Monitoring in Pennsylvania?

[AM23]

I'm in Pennsylvania and am looking for answers to the questions below. My son's 2e and in 8th grade.

• Are districts required to give parents the results of literacy screenings like DIBELS? In our situation, the district didn't, and we got them through a FERPA request last summer. We had significant concerns about our son's reading and still do. The early deficits that showed up on DIBELS are still there  in phonemic and phonological awareness and decoding. My son can read a few pages if he has to, but there are clear gaps in skills if you dig just a little below the surface. (Reading is tiring, and he adds,  skips and rearranges words, letters, and sounds.) Most standardized tests don't seem to require reading a lot of text at one time. The gaps show up more obviously in his writing. My son is in 8th grade, so it's also possible that districts share screening results now, but didn't have to 6 or 7 years ago. 
   
• Through our FERPA request, we also found out that my son was being progress monitored in 1st and 2nd, and we were not told about this prior to this past summer. This is in the context of me telling my son's teachers that he'd become very upset and refuse (couldn't)  to read or write at home, and I had significant concerns about this. I'm correct that parents should be informed of progress monitoring, right? 
   
• Can I use the DIBELS scores and progress monitoring as data to help show his current IEP  does not match him and what he needs and to provide history of reading struggles? How much weight will info have in making my case?  My son currently qualifies for his IEP under Autism. His only goal currently is a self-advocacy goal, so I'm gathering data to get new evals to show needs in writing and reading.

 

Thanks.