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General Board of Education Policies

The district is committed to the development and implementation of an appropriate education for students with disabilities who reside in the district in accordance with the following administrative practices and procedures:

  • To ensure that students with disabilities have the opportunity to participate in school district programs to the maximum extent appropriate to the needs of each student, including nonacademic and extracurricular programs and activities, which are available to all other students in the public schools of the district.
  • To ensure that each preschool student with a disability residing in the district has the opportunity to participate in preschool programs, including timely evaluation and placement.
  • To appoint and train appropriately qualified personnel, including the members and chairpersons of the committee on special education and the committee on preschool special education.
  • To implement the provisions of Section 200.6 (a) of the Commissioner's Regulations and to provide special services or programs, to the extent appropriate to the needs of the student, to enable the student to be involved in and progress in the general education curriculum.
  • To ensure that parents have received and understand the request for consent for evaluation of a preschool student.
  • To ensure the confidentiality of personally identifiable data, information or records pertaining to a student with a disability. Such personally identifiable information will not be disclosed except in accordance with the Regulations.
  • To implement school-wide approaches, which may include a response to intervention process, and pre-referral interventions in order to remediate a student's performance prior to referral to special education.
  • To ensure the establishment of plans and policies for the appropriate declassification of students with disabilities.
  • To ensure the selection and board appointment of an impartial hearing officer consistent with Regulations.
  • To ensure that all instructional materials to be used in the schools in the district are available in a usable alternative format for each student with a disability in accordance with the student's educational needs and course selections at the same time that such materials are available to nondisabled students.
  • To ensure that personnel responsible for implementing or assisting in the implementation of a student's IEP receive or are provided access to a copy of the IEP for review prior to its implementation, and are informed of their responsibility to implement the recommendations of the IEP.
  • To ensure that measurable steps are taken to recruit, hire, train and retain highly qualified personnel to provide special education programs and services.
  • To ensure the establishment of guidelines for the provision of appropriate accommodations necessary to ensure the academic achievement and functional performance of the student in the administration of district-wide assessments.
  • To ensure that universal design principles be used, to the extent feasible in developing and administering any district-wide assessment programs.
  • To ensure that adequate and appropriate space is made available to meet the needs of preschool and school age students with disabilities.
  • To ensure that students who reside in the district have received the protection of all other applicable State and Federal laws and regulations.