Policy – Category 4000 (Personnel)
BP 4001 – Personnel Development
1. Instruction and services for children whose needs have been identified in an IEP and who are assigned to regular classroom teachers for a majority of the school day.
2. Information and assistance to children with disabilities and their parents.
3. Consultation with and provision of resource information and material regarding children with disabilities to their parents and other staff members.
4. Coordination of special education services with the regular school programs for each child with a disability enrolled in the resource specialist program.
5. Monitoring of student progress on a regular basis, participation in the review and revision of IEPs as appropriate, and referral of children who do not demonstrate sufficient progress to the IEP team.
6. Emphasis at the secondary school level on academic achievement, career and vocational development, and preparation for adult life.
The resource specialist program shall be directed by a resource specialist who is a credentialed special education teacher or who has a clinical services credential with a special class authorization, and who has three or more years of teaching experience, including both general and special education teaching experience ( Education Code § 56362(b) ). No resource specialist shall have a caseload which exceeds 28 students ( Education Code § 56362(c) ). As necessary and with the agreement of the resource specialist, the LEA Governing Board may request a waiver from the State Board of Education to increase the caseload to no more than 32 students, provided that, an individual resource specialist does not have a caseload exceeding 28 students for more than two school years and has the assistance of an instructional aide at least five hours daily during the period of the waiver ( Education Code § 56362; Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 3100 ).
Resource specialists shall not simultaneously be assigned to serve as resource specialists and to teach regular classes ( Education Code § 56362(d) ).
Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 3100. A school district, SELPA, county office of education, or any other public agency providing special education or related services may request the SBE to grant a waiver of the maximum resource specialist caseload, as set forth in Education Code section 56362(c), only if the waiver is necessary or beneficial either (1) to the content and implementation of a pupil’s IEP and does not abrogate any right provided individuals with exceptional needs by specified federal law or (2) to the agency’s compliance with specified federal law.
BP 4001 – Personnel Development
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Desert Mountain Special Education Local Plan Area (DMSELPA) (rev. 09/17)
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