Chapter 22: Personnel Development
SECTION A: COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT SECTION B: DESERT/MOUNTAIN SELPA PERSONNEL STANDARDS
SECTION C: REGIONAL TRAINING SECTION D: ON-SITE TRAINING SECTION E: SPECIAL EDUCATION TRAINING SECTION F: RESOURCE SPECIALISTS SECTION G: RELATED SERVICES PERSONNEL AND PARAPROFESSIONALS
Introduction It shall be the policy of the Desert/Mountain Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) to ensure that personnel providing special education and related services meet the highly-qualified requirements as defined under federal law, including that those personnel have the content knowledge and skills to serve children with disabilities. This policy shall not be construed to create a right of action on behalf of an individual child for the failure of a Local Education Agency (LEA) staff member to be highly qualified or to prevent a parent from filing a state complaint with the California Department of Education (CDE) about staff qualifications. It shall be the policy of the Desert/Mountain SELPA and member LEAs to support and assist the state’s efforts and activities to ensure an adequate supply of qualified special and general education teachers, and related services personnel. This shall include recruitment, hiring, training, and efforts to retain highly qualified personnel to provide special education and related services under this part to children with disabilities. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) amended the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by removing the definition of “highly qualified” in § 602(10), and the requirement in § 612(a) (14) (C), that special education teachers be “highly qualified” by the deadline established in § 1119(a)(2) of the Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by No Child Left Behind. Accordingly, a state is not required to ensure that special education teachers are “highly
Chapter 22 – Personnel Development, Desert/Mountain SELPA As of 09/22/2017 CAHELP Governance Approval
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