MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION MID-CYCLE REPORT Triton Regional Public School District Dates of the Mid-cycle Review Onsite: February 8, 2012 Date of this Report: April 27, 2012 PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REPORT IS IN TWO SECTIONS. Required Special Education Criteria Monitored in this Mid-cycle Review Current special education criteria available by scrolling down to the special education instrument at Criterion Criterion Implemented Criterion Partially Implemented (PI) or Not Implemented (NI) Method(s) of Investigation Basis of Determination about Criterion If Partially Implemented or Not Implemented: Action and Timelines for (b) Progress Report Due Date(s) and Required Elements SE 7 Transfer of Parental Rights and Student Student Record Review The district consistently informs students and
consent from students to continue their special education program. SE 8 IEP Team Composition and Attendance Student Record Review Document Review Staff Interviews In those circumstances when a required IEP Team member could not attend the meeting, written excusals documenting that the parent agreed that attendance of
SE 18A IEP Development and Content PI Student Record Review Document Review Staff Interviews IEP Teams do not consider and specifically address the skills and proficiencies needed to avoid and respond to bullying, harassment, or teasing for students identified with social, emotional or behavioral disabilities or students on the autism The district must conduct training for special education personnel acting as IEP Team chairpersons on how to document that the IEP Team considered and addressed the skills and proficiencies needed to avoid and respond to bullying, harassment, or teasing. Please refer to: for guidance. Please submit evidence of staff training, including an agenda and signed attendance sheets with the names of the staff members and their roles. Please submit the description of the oversight system and identify the person(s) responsible for the oversight
of all corrective actions to ensure that IEP Teams consider and address, as appropriate, the skills and proficiencies needed to avoid and respond to bullying, harassment, or teasing. *Please note that when monitoring the district must maintain the following documentation and make it The number of records in For any records not in compliance with this criterion, provide the results of a root cause analysis of the and Specific corrective actions taken by
available to the Department upon request: a) List of student names and grade levels for the record review; b) Date of the review; c) Name of person(s) who conducted the review, their roles(s), and their signature(s). the district to remedy any The results of the record review must received by December 6, 2012. SE 25 Parental Consent PI Student Record Review The district procures parental consent prior The district must discontinue its current practice and revise its Please provide the revised procedures and evidence of the
Document Review Interviews to the evaluation of students. The district does not have procedures for when parents revoke consent for IEP services. The district’s current practice when receiving a request to discontinue services is to retain the student’s services, require parents procedures demonstrating that it promptly provides written notice of the district’s proposal to discontinue services to the parent. The district must provide the notice a reasonable time before the district intends to discontinue the services so that the parent has time to consider the training, including an agenda and signed attendance sheet with the names of the staff members and their roles. Please submit the description of the oversight system and identify the person(s) responsible for the oversight. Please submit the documentation
Please develop a system that includes supervisory oversight and periodic reviews to ensure compliance with the requirements for when a parent revokes consent. The district will conduct an internal review of student records for those records where parents revoked consent after the district records not in compliance with this criterion, provide the results of a root cause analysis of the and Specific corrective actions taken by the district to remedy any
Additional Special Education Criteria Monitored in this Mid-cycle Review Current special education criteria available by scrolling down to the special education instrument at Criterion Criterion Implemented Criterion Partially Implemented (PI) or Not Implemented (NI) Method(s) of Investigation of Determination about Criterion If Partially Implemented or Not Implemented: (a) Required Corrective Action and Timelines for Implementation (b) Progress Report Due Date(s) and Required Elements SE 13 Progress Reports and Content Student Record Review Parents receive progress reports on their child’s progress towards meeting IEP goals with the same frequency as students receive progress reports. SE 20 Least Restrictive Program Selected PI Student Record Review IEP Nonparticipation Justification statements at the elementary and high school level are comprehensive and contain all required information. Please conduct training for middle school special education personnel responsible for the development of the IEP on writing Justification statements. Please develop a monitoring system that includes supervisory oversight and periodic reviews to Submit evidence of training; including an agenda and signed attendance sheets with the names of the staff members and their roles. Please submit the description of the oversight system and identify the person(s) responsible for the oversight.
Advisory Council for Special Education Interviews education met six times during the 2010-2011 school year and has three meetings scheduled for the spring of 2011-2012 school year including a parent’s rights information session. SE 33 Involvement in the general curriculum Student Record Review The district consistently documents a student’s in the general curriculum on the IEP Present Levels of Educational Performance A form (PLEP A). SE 34 Continuum of Alternative Services and Placements Student Record Review Interviews The district fully implements IEP services identified on the IEP service delivery grids of students. The district eliminated
the Alternative Community Education program and the Career Awareness programs. SE 53 Use of Document Review Interviews The Alternative Community Education and the Career Awareness special education programs are no longer in existence. Paraprofessionals are consistently the supervision of an appropriately licensed professional. SE 55 Special Education Facilities and Classrooms Facility Observation The district discontinued its substantially separate Alternative Community Education and Career Awareness programs. Students