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Florida Department of Education

Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services

General Supervision

Part IV. Policies and Procedures for ParentallyPlaced Private School Students with Disabilities Section A: Provision of Equitable Services to ParentallyPlaced Private School Students with Disabilities

Statutory and Regulatory Citations

34 CFR ??300.130?300.144 Rule 6A6.030281, F.A.C.

Definition

Parentallyplaced private school students with disabilities means students with disabilities enrolled by their parents in private, including religious, nonprofit schools or facilities that meet the definition of elementary school or secondary school under rules 6A6.03011 through 6A6.0361, F.A.C., and does not include students with disabilities who are or have been placed in or referred to a private school or facility by the school district as a means of providing special education and related services. This definition does not include students with disabilities enrolled by their parents in forprofit private schools.

Procedures

1. Policies and procedures for parentallyplaced private school students with disabilities

The school district will maintain policies and procedures to ensure the provision of equitable services to students with disabilities who have been placed in private schools by their parents.

2. Child find for parentallyplaced private school students with disabilities

The school district will locate, identify, and evaluate all students with disabilities who are enrolled by their parents in private, including religious, elementary and secondary schools located in the school district's jurisdiction. The child find process will be designed to ensure the equitable participation of parentallyplaced private school students and an accurate count of those students.

a. Activities

In carrying out the requirements of this section, the school district will undertake activities similar to the activities undertaken for the school district's public school students.

b. Cost

The cost of carrying out the child find requirements, including individual evaluations, may not be considered in determining if the school district has met its obligation.

c. Completion period

The child find process will be completed in a time period comparable to that for other students attending public schools in the school district.

d. Outofstate students

The school district in which private, including religious, elementary and secondary schools are located will, in carrying out the child find requirements, include parentallyplaced private school students who reside in a state other than Florida.

3. Confidentiality of personally identifiable information



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If a student is enrolled, or is going to enroll, in a private school that is not located in the school district of the parent's residence, parental consent will be obtained before any personally identifiable information about the child is released between officials in the school district where the private school is located and officials in the school district of the parent's residence.

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