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SubA - Special Needs Law at Fabisch Law, L.L.C.
(b) An LEA is eligible for assistance under Chapter 16 of the Rhode Island General Laws for a fiscal year if the agency submits a plan that provides assurances to the SEA that the LEA meets each of the conditions as set forth in these regulations.
The LEA, in providing for the education of children with disabilities within its jurisdiction, must have in effect and on file with RIDE, policies, procedures, and programs that are consistent with State policies and procedures.
(3) Must be used to supplement State, local, and other Federal funds and not to supplant those funds.
(b) Excess cost requirement—(1) General. (i) The excess cost requirement prevents an LEA from using funds provided under Part B of the Act to pay for all of the costs directly attributable to the education of a child with a disability, subject to paragraph (b)(1)(ii) of this section.
(ii) The excess cost requirement does not prevent an LEA from using Part B funds to pay for all of the costs directly attributable to the education of a child with a disability in any of the ages 3, 4, 5, 18, 19, 20, or 21, if no local or State funds are available for nondisabled children of these ages. However, the LEA must comply with the nonsupplanting and other requirements of this part in providing the education and services for these children.
(2)(i) An LEA meets the excess cost requirement if it has spent at least a minimum average amount for the education of its children with disabilities before funds under Part B of the Act are used.
(ii) The amount described in paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section is determined in accordance with the definition of excess costs in § 300.16. That amount may not include capital outlay or debt service.
(3) If two or more LEAs jointly establish eligibility in accordance with § 300.223, the minimum average amount is the average of the combined minimum average amounts determined in accordance with the definition of excess costs in § 300.16 in those agencies for elementary or secondary school students, as the case may be.
(a) General. Except as provided in §§ 300.204 and 300.205, funds provided to an LEA under Part B of the Act must not be used to reduce the level of expenditures for the education of children with disabilities made by the LEA from local funds below the level of those expenditures for the preceding fiscal year.
(2) An LEA that relies on paragraph (b)(1)(i) of this section for any fiscal year must ensure that the amount of local funds it budgets for the education of children with disabilities in that year is at least the same, either in total or per capita, as the amount it spent for that purpose in the most recent fiscal year for which information is available and the standard in paragraph (b)(1)(i) of this section was used to establish its compliance with this section.
(3) The SEA may not consider any expenditures made from funds provided by the Federal Government for which the SEA is required to account to the Federal Government or for which the LEA is required to account to the Federal Government directly or through the SEA in determining an LEA‘s compliance with the requirement in paragraph (a) of this section.
300.206 Schoolwide programs under Title I of the ESEA.
(2) The number of children with disabilities participating in the schoolwide program.
(1) The funds must be considered as Federal Part B funds for purposes of the calculations required by §§ 300.202(a)(2) and (a)(3).
(2) The funds may be used without regard to the requirements of § 300.202(a)(1).
(2) Are afforded all of the rights and services guaranteed to children with disabilities under the Act.
The LEA must ensure that all personnel necessary to carry out Part B of the Act and these regulations are appropriately and adequately prepared, subject to the requirements of § 300.156 (related to personnel qualifications) and § 2122 of the ESEA.
(1) Services and aids that also benefit nondisabled children. For the costs of special education and related services, and supplementary aids and services, provided in a regular class or other education-related setting to a child with a disability in accordance with the IEP of the child, even if one or more nondisabled children benefit from these services.
(2) Early intervening services. To develop and implement coordinated, early intervening educational services in accordance with § 300.226.
(3) High cost special education and related services. To establish and implement cost or risk sharing funds, consortia, or cooperatives for the LEA itself, or for LEAs working in a consortium of which the LEA is a part, to pay for high cost special education and related services.
(b) Administrative case management. An LEA may use funds received under Part B of the Act to purchase appropriate technology for recordkeeping, data collection, and related case management activities of teachers and related services personnel providing services described in the IEP of children with disabilities, that is needed for the implementation of those case management activities.
(a) Rights of children with disabilities. Children with disabilities who attend public charter schools and their parents retain all rights under this part.
(B) At the same time as the LEA distributes other Federal funds to the LEA‘s other public schools, consistent with the State‘s charter school law.
(ii) The LEA must meet the requirements of paragraph (b)(1) of this section.
ensuring that the requirements of this part are met, unless State law assigns that responsibility to some other entity.
(d) Public charter schools that are not an LEA or a school that is part of an LEA. (1) If the public charter school is not an LEA receiving funding under 34 CFR 300.705, or a school that is part of an LEA receiving funding under 34 CFR 300.705, the SEA is responsible for ensuring that the requirements of this part are met.
(2) Paragraph (d)(1) of this section does not preclude the State from assigning initial responsibility for ensuring the requirements of this part are met to another entity. However, the SEA shall maintain the ultimate responsibility for ensuring compliance with this part, consistent with 34 CFR 300.149.
(2) Each public agency must ensure that children with disabilities who need instructional materials in accessible formats are provided those materials in a timely manner, and must take all reasonable steps to provide instructional materials in accessible formats to children with disabilities who need those instructional materials at the same time as other children receive instructional materials.
(b) Rights of LEA. (1) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require an LEA to coordinate with the NIMAC.
(2) If an LEA chooses not to coordinate with the NIMAC, the LEA must provide an assurance to the SEA that the LEA will provide instructional materials to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner.
(3) Nothing in this section relieves a public agency of its responsibility to ensure that children with disabilities who need instructional materials in accessible formats but are not included under the definition of blind or other persons with print disabilities within (e) of this section or who need materials that cannot be produced from NIMAS files, receive those instructional materials in a timely manner.
(d) Assistive technology. In carrying out this section, the Public Agency, to the maximum extent possible, must work collaboratively with the SEA assistive technology program(s).
(iv) Specialized formats has the meaning given the term in § 674(e)(3)(D) of the Act.
(2) The definitions in paragraph (e)(1) of this section apply to each public agency, whether or not the public agency chooses to coordinate with the NIMAC.
The LEA must provide the SEA with information necessary to enable the SEA to carry out its duties under Part B of the Act, including, information relating to the performance of children with disabilities participating in programs carried out under Part B of the Act.
The LEA must make available to parents of children with disabilities and to the general public all documents relating to the eligibility of the agency under Part B of the Act.
The LEA must cooperate in the Secretary‘s efforts under § 1308 of the ESEA to ensure the linkage of records pertaining to migratory children with disabilities for the purpose of electronically exchanging, among the States, health and educational information regarding those children.
(a) General. If an LEA or a State agency described in 34 CFR 300.228 has on file with the SEA policies and procedures that demonstrate that the LEA or State agency meets any requirement of § 300.200, including any policies and procedures filed under Part B of the Act as in effect before December 3, 2004, the SEA shall consider the LEA or State agency to have met that requirement for purposes of receiving assistance under Part B of the Act.
and procedures submitted by an LEA or a State agency in accordance with this subpart remain in effect until the LEA or State agency submits to the SEA the modifications that the LEA or State agency determines are necessary.
(3) Official findings of noncompliance with Federal or State law or regulations.
(b) Provide the LEA or State agency with reasonable notice and an opportunity for a hearing.
(a) General. If the SEA, after reasonable notice and an opportunity for a hearing, finds that an LEA or State agency that has been determined to be eligible under this subpart or subpart C of 34 C.F.R. Part 300 is failing to comply with any requirement described in §§ 300.201 through 300.213, the SEA shall reduce or must not provide any further payments to the LEA or State agency until the SEA is satisfied that the LEA or State agency is complying with that requirement.
(b) Notice requirement. Any State agency or LEA in receipt of a notice described in paragraph (a) of this section must, by means of public notice, take the measures necessary to bring the pendency of an action pursuant to this section to the attention of the public within the jurisdiction of the agency.
adverse to the LEA or State agency involved in the decision.
(a) General. The SEA may require an LEA to establish its eligibility jointly with another LEA if the SEA determines that the LEA will be ineligible under this subpart because the agency will not be able to establish and maintain programs of sufficient size and scope to effectively meet the needs of children with disabilities.
establish its eligibility under paragraph (a) of this section unless the charter school is explicitly permitted to do so under the State‘s charter school statute.
(c) Amount of payments. If an SEA requires the joint establishment of eligibility under paragraph (a) of this section, the total amount of funds made available to the affected LEAs must be equal to the sum of the payments that each LEA would have received under § 300.705 of 34 C.F.R. Part 300 if the agencies were eligible for those payments.
(2) Be jointly responsible for implementing programs that receive assistance under Part B of the Act.
(2) Must be carried out only by that educational service agency.
(c) Additional requirement. Notwithstanding any other provision of §§ 300.223 through 300.224, an educational service agency must provide for the education of children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment, as required by § 300.114.
(2) Providing educational and behavioral evaluations, services, and supports, including scientifically based literacy instruction.
(c) Construction. Nothing in this section shall be construed to either limit or create a right to FAPE under Part B of the Act or to delay appropriate evaluation of a child suspected of having a disability.
(2) The number of children served under this section who received early intervening services and subsequently receive special education and related services under Part B of the Act during the preceding two year period.
(e) Coordination with ESEA. Funds made available to carry out this section may be used to carry out coordinated, early intervening services aligned with activities funded by, and carried out under the ESEA if those funds are used to supplement, and not supplant, funds made available under the ESEA for the activities and services assisted under this section.
(iv) Has one or more children with disabilities who can best be served by a regional or State program or service delivery system designed to meet the needs of these children.
(2) SEA administrative procedures. (i) In meeting the requirements in paragraph (a)(1) of this section, the SEA may provide special education and related services directly, by contract, or through other arrangements.
(ii) The excess cost requirements of § 300.202(b) do not apply to the SEA.
(b) Manner and location of education and services. The SEA may provide special education and related services under paragraph (a) of this section in the manner and at the locations (including regional or State centers) as the SEA considers appropriate. The education and services must be provided in accordance with this part.
(a) A public agency must include in the records of a child with a disability a statement of any current or previous disciplinary action that has been taken against the child and transmit the statement to the same extent that the disciplinary information is included in, and transmitted with, the student records of nondisabled children.
(b) The statement may include a description of any behavior engaged in by the child that required disciplinary action, a description of the disciplinary action taken, and any other information that is relevant to the safety of the child and other individuals involved with the child.
(c) If the child transfers from one school to another, the transmission of any of the child‘s records must include both the child‘s current IEP and any statement of current or previous disciplinary action that has been taken against the child.

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