Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XLIII - Bulletin 1706-Regulations for Implementation of the Children with Exceptionalities Act › Subpart 1 - Students with Disabilities › Chapter 7 - Authorization, Allotment, Use of Funds, and Authorization of Appropriations › Subchapter A - Allotments, Grants, and Use of Funds › Section XLIII-705 - Subgrants to LEAs

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Subgrants
					 Required. If the LDE receives a grant under
					 §611 of the
					 IDEA for any fiscal year, it shall distribute any funds the LDE does not
					 reserve under
					 §704 to LEAs
					 (including public charter schools that operate as LEAs) in the state that have
					 established their eligibility under
					 §613 of the
					 IDEA for use in accordance with Part B of the IDEA. Effective with funds that
					 become available on July 1, 2009, the LDE must distribute funds to eligible
					 LEAs, including public charter schools that operate as LEAs, even if the LEA is
					 not serving any students with disabilities.
B. Allocations to LEAs. For each fiscal year
					 for which funds are allocated to the LDE under §703, the LDE shall
					 allocate funds as follows.
1. Base Payments.
					 The LDE first shall award each LEA described in Subsection A of this Section
					 the amount the LEA would have received under
					 section
					 611 of the IDEA for fiscal
					 year 1999, if the state had distributed 75 percent of its grant for that year
					 under section 611(d) of the IDEA, as that section was then in effect.
2. Base Payment Adjustments
.
For any fiscal year after 1999:
a. if a new
					 LEA is created, the LDE shall divide the base allocation determined under
					 Paragraph B.1 of this Section for the LEAs that would have been responsible for
					 serving students with disabilities now being served by the new LEA, among the
					 new LEA and affected LEAs based on the relative numbers of students with
					 disabilities ages 3 through 21 currently provided special education by each of
					 the LEAs;
b. if one or more LEAs
					 are combined into a single new LEA, the LDE shall combine the base allocations
					 of the merged LEAs; and
c. if, for
					 two or more LEAs, geographic boundaries or administrative responsibility for
					 providing services to students with disabilities ages 3 through 21 change, the
					 base allocations of affected LEAs shall be redistributed among affected LEAs
					 based on the relative numbers of students with disabilities ages 3 through 21
					 currently provided special education by each affected LEA;
d. if an LEA received a base payment of zero
					 in its first year of operation, the LDE must adjust the base payment for the
					 first fiscal year after the first annual child count in which the LEA reports
					 that it is serving any students with disabilities. The LDE must divide the base
					 allocation determined under Paragraph B.1 of this Section for the LEAs that
					 would have been responsible for serving students with disabilities now being
					 served by the LEA, among the LEA and affected LEAs based on the relative
					 numbers of students with disabilities ages 3 through 21, or ages 6 through 21
					 currently provided special education by each of the LEAs. This requirement
					 takes effect with funds that become available on July 1, 2009.
3. Allocation of Remaining Funds.
					 After making allocations under Paragraph B.1 of this Section, as adjusted by
					 Paragraph B.2 of this Section, the LDE shall:
a. allocate 85 percent of any remaining funds
					 to those LEAs on the basis of the relative numbers of students enrolled in
					 public and private elementary schools and secondary schools within the LEA's
					 jurisdiction; and
b. allocate 15
					 percent of those remaining funds to those LEAs in accordance with their
					 relative numbers of students living in poverty, as determined by the
					 LDE.