71bsection2

SPED Education Overview Chapter 71b section 2 __The Principal__
 * The board shall come up with a narrative description of each child’s development potential (so as to minimize the possibility of stigmatization and to assure a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment of a child with a disability. The definition shall be sufficiently flexible to include children with multiple disabilities.)
 * The principal of the child’s school shall **ensure that all efforts have been made to meet such child’s needs within the regular education program**.
 * Such efforts may include, but not be limited to: modifying the regular education program, the curriculum, teaching strategies, reading instruction, environments or materials, the use of support services, the use of consultative services and building-based student and teacher support and assistance teams to meet the child’s needs in the regular education classroom.
 * The principal of each school **shall implement the district’s curriculum accommodation plan** created under section 38Q 1/2 of chapter 71 **in developing strategies for serving children with diverse learning styles within the regular classroom.**
 * The principal of each school **may designate one professional staff person in the curriculum accommodation plan** required in said section 38Q 1/2 of chapter 71 **to coordinate services, support and resources designed to meet each child’s needs within regular education**.
 * **Children receiving** or requiring special education **shall be entitled to participate in any of the following programs**: (1) additional direct or indirect instruction **consultation service,** materials, equipment or aid provided children or their regular classroom teachers which directly benefits children requiring special education; (2**) supplementary individual or small group instruction** or treatment in conjunction with a regular classroom program; (3) integrated programs in which children are assigned **to special resource classrooms** but attend regular classes to the extent that they are able to function therein; (4) **full-time special class teaching in a public school building**; (5**) teaching at home**; (6) **full-time**  teaching in a special day school or other day facility; (7) teaching at **a hospital**; (8) teaching at a **short or long-term residential school;** (9) **occupational or pre-occupational training** in conjunction with the regular occupational training program **in a public school**; (10) occupational and pre-occupational training in conjunction with full-time special class teaching in a public school building, at home, in a special day school or other day facility, hospital or short or long-term residential school; and (11) any combination or modification of these programs or other programs, services or experimental provisions which obtain the prior approval of the department.
 * Children in public (and non-public) schools shall be entitled to teaching at home and in the hospital if the child’s physician determines the child will have to remain at home or in a hospital for more than **14 school days** in any school year.
 * **An expediated evaluation shall be conducted and services provided to students within 15 calendar days**
 * **No child shall be assigned to a special education class unless it is first determined by an evaluation of the child’s disability** and the particular special education program that the child is likely to benefit from such program; and **in no event less often than annually the child and his program shall be reevaluated to determine whether said child is benefiting from said program** in accordance with the procedures set forth in section three. In the event that said program is not benefiting the child and that another program may benefit the child more, or said program has benefited the child sufficiently to permit re-assignment, the child shall be reassigned, and in the event of consistent failure of a program to benefit children there assigned, the program shall be abolished or altered.