Pierce County Board of Education will hold a virtual child find proportionate share meeting Sept. 19. The meeting will be held at 9 a.m.
According to Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) 2004, school systems must engage in timely and meaningful consultation with representatives of private schools and with parents about the provision of special education and related services for parentally placed private school children attending private schools within the school systems jurisdictions. This would include parents of students in a home school setting.
The consultation process must include specific discussion of the following topics:
A. How parentally-placed private school children suspected of having a disability can participate equitably in the Child Find process
B. How the parents, teachers, and private school officials will be informed of the Child Find process
C. How the determination of the proportionate share of federal funds available to serve the children with disabilities was calculated.
D. How the process will operate throughout the school year
E. How, where, and by whom the special education and related services will be provided including the types of services, how services will be apportioned if there are insufficient funds to serve all of the children and how and when these decisions will be made.
F. How the Local Educational Agency (LEA) shall provide a written explanation to private school officials of the reason why the LEA chose not to provide services if the LEA and private school officials disagree.
Please consider attending this meeting by scanning the QR or dialing in using the phone number below. If you have any questions please contact Sarah McIntosh, Director of Student Services for Pierce County Schools, at 912-449-2091 or [email protected].
