NCEA Notes

NCEA notes: IDEA: Benefits & Services for Parentally Placed Private School Students with Disabilities
Notes by Cynthia Cox

Children with disabilities enrolled in private schools:

Each LEA (local education agency) must "locate, identify and evaluate" all children with disabilities in private elementary and secondary schools

The LEA must spend a proportionate share of funds on testing and evaluation of children in parentally-placed private schools

Each LEA must determine within a specific time frame the methods for identifying such students and must share these methods with the private schools

"A parentally-placed child with a disability does not have an individual right to some or all of the special education and related services the child would receive if enrolled in a public school." – in other words, schools must help identify but do not have to offer services

"Those children designated to receive services may receive a different amount of services" than students with disabilities in public schools.

ONPE's IDEA Page (Office of Non-Public Education)
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/programs2.html

Link to PowerPoint from presentation:
https://www.amshq.org/Events/AMS%20Annual%20Conference/Past%20Conferences/2011%20Annual%20conference/Conference%20Schedule/Saturday%20March%2026/Afternoon/Workshops%20Session%205/IDEA-Benefits%20and%20Services.aspx