Operating Standards for Children with Disabilities Update December 2013

Last updated in 2008

Purpose Ohio’s Implementation of IDEA Ensure a Free Appropriate Public Education 1

Purpose Protect the rights of children with disabilities and their parents Support LEAs and other educational service agencies in providing a high quality education for all children with disabilities 2

Purpose Assess and ensure the effectiveness of efforts to educate children with disabilities 3

RULE CHANGES

Rule Applicability of Requirements and Definitions Intellectual Disability (not cognitive) & Visual Impairment Initial and Reevaluation Teams Transition Services and Skills of Individuals Providing Transition Services

No Substantive Changes Rule Free Appropriate Public Education Rule Child Find Rule Confidentiality

Informed Consent and Health Care Benefits Prior Written Notice Notice of Scholarship (Autism and Peterson) availability Resolution Sessions Rule Procedural Safeguards

Removes required reevaluation for transitioning preschool children Children with hearing impairments or deafness Rule Evaluation

Rule Individualized Education Program Age 14 Transition Planning and Services Comprehensive eye exam

Responsibility for child find and services for children on scholarship Rule Parentally Placed Nonpublic School Children IDEA Proportional Share funds and Scholarship students FAPE, complaints and due process for Scholarship students

Paraprofessional training Workload determination for intervention specialist and related service providers Rule : Delivery of Services

No single source of information Removes language related to units Transportation Rule Preschool Children Eligible for Special Education

Rule Providing instructional materials to children with visual impairments and others with print disabilities Approved Textbook Publishers List Electronic textbooks

Timeline and Input on Rules Revision September 2012 list generated of needed changes State Advisory Panel for Exceptional Children (SAPEC) Meeting – discussion of upcoming 5 year rule review of Operating Standards October 2012 first draft of proposed amendments November 2012 SAPEC Meeting –draft of proposed amendments discussed draft of rule amendments posted for public comment December 2012 discussion of proposed amendments in State Board of Education, Achievement Committee

Timeline and Input on Rules Revision February 2013­­ discussion and update in State Board of Education, Achievement Committee second draft of proposed rule amendments posted 9 regional meetings for public comment in February and March July 2013 ­­ discussion and update of proposed amendments in State Board of Education, Achievement Committee October 2013 ­­ discussion and update of proposed amendments in State Board of Education, Achievement Committee December 2013  discussion and update at SBE, Achievement Committee

Timeline and Next Steps January 2014  resolution of Intent to Consider the Amendment of the Rules – vote out of Achievement Committee, and passed to the full Board February 2014  rules are filed with JCARR March 2014  public hearing at the State Board meeting; JCARR hearing April 2014  resolution to Adopt – full Board

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