The Advocacy Center will monitor the 2001 session to follow any legislation or appropriation issue related to carrying out the agreement. Recently, several suggestions have come to the Advocacy Center concerning exceptional student education. Families must have a clear and distinct understanding of their right to report such matters and the procedures to follow when doing so. The need for all children with disabilities who reside in residential care facilities or juvenile delinquency institutions to receive approved services. Each should receive the individualized exceptional education programming they would have received in their home schools.
School districts are responsible for locating and assessing exceptional students.
Unfortunately, there are no statutory timeframes in which the schools must act. Suggestions have been made to require the assessment and planning be completed no later than 30 days after the child has been referred to the school district for assessment.