3. The nature of services include: • consultation to modify the core curriculum • clinical intervention for specific skill development • intensity, duration, and frequency of service • measurement of student outcomes based on the standards for all students 4. If the parent of a private school child with a disability agrees with, but wishes to decline, the IEP developed by the team shall: a) Develop an Individual Services Plan (ISP) in accordance with this policy and federal and state laws and regulations using the appropriate ISP forms. b) Ask the parent to indicate his/her agreement with, by checking the box next to the following statement on the appropriate service plan form “I agree that the district has offered my child a free appropriate public education. However, I am voluntarily placing my child in a private school.” D. IEP/IFSP Policy 1. Pursuant to federal and state law and regulations, the LEAs served by the Desert/Mountain SELPA shall spend a proportionate share of federal funds on providing special education and related services to private school children ages three to 22 with disabilities eligible for special education services. 2. The Desert/Mountain SELPA shall develop an IEP/IFSP policy regarding the special education and related services to be provided to private school children ages three to 22 with disabilities eligible for special education services. Such IEP/IFSP Policy shall be developed after consulting, in a timely and meaningful way, with representatives of private school children with disabilities, including private school administrators, teachers, parents and students, in order to identify: a) Disabling conditions that are served; b) Services that will be provided; c) How, where, and by whom services will be provided; and d) How services will be documented and evaluated. 3. The IEP/IFSP Policy shall be reviewed by the Desert/Mountain SELPA annually by consultation with representatives of private school children ages three to 22 with disabilities including private school administrators, teachers, parents, and students. 4. The services provided pursuant to the ISP Services Policy may be provided at the SELPA, student’s residence school or LEA or at a private school, including a religious school, to the extent consistent with law. However, the Desert/Mountain SELPA and/or the LEA of residence shall not use IEP/IFSP Policy funds to finance the existing level of instruction in a private school or to otherwise benefit the private school.
Chapter 19 - Private Schools and Services, Desert/Mountain SELPA
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As of 11/25/2009
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