Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 200 - Board of Education › Chapter 20 - Council on Elementary and Secondary Education › Subchapter 10 - Academic Standards, Programs and Operations › Part 1 - Basic Education Program (200-RICR-20-10-1) › Section 200-RICR-20-10-1.3 - Safe, Healthy, and Supportive Learning Environment

Current through June 14, 2024
1.3.1
Academic Supports and
				  Interventions
A. Academic Supports and
				  Interventions for All Students
1. Each LEA
				  shall ensure that all students have the opportunity and skills necessary to
				  access the systems of developmentally appropriate, targeted, and responsive
				  academic supports and interventions for learning that they need to become
				  college, work, and career ready. These supports and interventions enable the
				  LEA to address the following functions: Foster Safe and Supportive Environments
				  for Students and Staff, Engage Families and the Community, and Use Information
				  for Planning and Accountability.
2.
				  Each LEA shall provide supplemental academic supports and interventions that
				  are evidence-based in the areas of literacy, numeracy, science, social studies,
				  history, and speech and English language acquisition. Such supplemental
				  academic supports and interventions shall be provided to students in K-12 when
				  students are determined, through an LEA systematic problem-solving approach, to
				  be at risk of not successfully achieving proficiency on state assessments
				  and/or Proficiency-Based Graduation Requirements.
3. The academic supports and interventions of
				  each LEA shall:
a. Coordinate with and
				  supplement instruction in the guaranteed and viable comprehensive program of
				  study;
b. Provide sufficient
				  instructional time to enable all students to achieve proficiency in the GLEs or
				  GSEs or alternate GSEs in any area required for graduation, as well as to meet
				  LEA-established standards for promotion;
c. Apply uniform entrance and exit
				  criteria;
d. Address cultural and
				  linguistic needs of students; and
e. Include student progress monitoring
				  through the LEA systematic problem-solving approach.
4. For each student receiving or
				  discontinuing an academic support or intervention, the LEA shall provide
				  written notice to the parent(s) or guardian(s) that must:
a. Describe the academic support or
				  intervention being delivered or discontinued;
b. Describe the systematic problem-solving
				  approach used to identify the student's need for support or
				  intervention;
c. Describe the exit
				  criteria for the support or intervention; and
d. Be provided in the parent's native
				  language.
5. Each LEA
				  shall provide for students who are homebound, hospitalized, or capable of only
				  intermittent school attendance for medical reasons, a sufficient degree of
				  academic support, including tutoring if necessary, to allow for regular
				  academic progress in the student's program of study. These supports shall
				  commence when the LEA becomes aware that the student's sustained or
				  intermittent absence will result in a significant regression in academic
				  progress.