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 8 - Preschool Grants for Students with Disabilities and the Responsibilities of DHH and the LDE › Section XLIII-803 - Subgrants to LEAs

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Subgrants
				  Required. If the LDE receives a grant under
				  §619 of the
				  IDEA for any fiscal year, it shall distribute any funds the LDE does not
				  reserve under
				  §802 to LEAs
				  (including public charter schools that operate as LEAs) in the state that have
				  established their eligibility under
				  §613 of the
				  IDEA. Effective with funds that become available on the 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 children 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 Paragraph A of this Section the amount the LEA would have
				  received under
				  §619 of the
				  IDEA for fiscal year 1999, if the state had distributed 75 percent of its grant
				  for that year under §619(c)(3) 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
				  5 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;
c. if, for two or more LEAs,
				  geographic boundaries or administrative responsibility for providing services
				  to students with disabilities ages 3 through 5 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 5 currently provided
				  special education by each affected LEA; and
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 3 through 5
				  currently provided special education by each of the LEAs. This requirement
				  takes effect with funds that become available on July 1, 2009.