Annual Notice/Child Find - Special Education Services for Children Ages 3-21

Notice: Federal and State requirements regarding Special Education services for parentally placed nonpublic school children. These changes may affect how your child receives Special Education services. The most important change is that the school district where the nonpublic school is located will now be responsible for individual evaluations and development of individualized education programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities, including conducting the Committee on Special Education (CSE) meetings, and for providing Special Education services to students with disabilities who are parentally placed in nonpublic schools. The following information is important for you to know: 

* If you have placed your child in a nonpublic school and, while the child is enrolled in that school, you suspect that the student has a disability, you must contact the school district where the nonpublic school is located to request an evaluation to determine your child's eligibility for Special Education services. 

* We must have your written consent in order for us to provide information (such as your child's IEP) to the school district where the nonpublic school is located. 

* If you place your child in a nonpublic school and wish your child to receive Special Education services while enrolled in that school, you must request those services in writing no later than June 1 before the school year in which services are to be provided. This year you should request services from us and with your written consent, we will forward that request to the school district responsible to provide the special education services to your child. (We will not require you to have requested services by June 1 if your child is first identified as needing Special Education services or if you moved into the district between June 1 of this year and April 1 of next year.) 

* If the nonpublic school where you place your child is located within the geographic boundaries of another public school district, the public school district in which the non public school is located will arrange for and provide the recommended services for your child. The personnel and locations for the delivery of those services will be determined by that school district. Federal and State law require this. 

* If the nonpublic school where you place your child is located in another state, your child may not be entitled to all of his/her IEP services. 

* Transportation requests from your child's home to the nonpublic school should continue to be submitted to the school district where your child legally resides by April 1 of the school year before transportation is to be provided.