SSS

Student Support Services

§ 200.2 Board of education responsibilities

Current through March 31, 2010.

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(a) Census and register of students with disabilities. (1) The board of education or trustees of each school district shall conduct a census in accordance with Education Law, sections 3240, 3241 and 3242, to locate and identify all students with disabilities who reside in the district and shall establish a register of such students who are entitled to attend the public schools of the district or are eligible to attend a preschool program in accordance with section 44 10 of the Education Law during the next school year, including students with disabilities who are homeless or who are wards of the Slate. The register of such students and others referred to the committee as possibly having a disability shall be maintained and revised annually by the district committee on special education or the committee on preschool special education, as appropriate. Procedures shall be implemented to assure the availability of statistical data to readily determine the status of each student with a disability in the identification, location, evaluation, placement and program review process. Census data shall be reported by October 1st to the committee on special education or committee on preschool special education, as appropriate.

(2) Data requirements. (i) Procedures shall be designed to record data on each student, and shall include at least the following types of data:

(a) student's name, address and birthdate:

(b) student's parents' names, address(es), and the native language of the student's home:

(c) student's suspected disability;

(d) dates of referral, evaluations, recommendations of the committee on special education, or committee on preschool special education, actual placement, and annual program reviews:

(e) site where the student is currently receiving an educational program;

(f) other student information as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) and Federal regulations, including but not limited to the student's race, ethnicity, limited English proficiency status, gender and disability category:

(g) if the student is not receiving an appropriate public education, the reason shall be described.

(ii) The data shall be organized so that it can readily be determined whether each student is receiving an appropriate public education, a partial education or no education at all.

(3) Data collection. All persons involved in the collection of data shall have received prior training and written information regarding the procedures to be followed in collecting the data.

(4) Data reporting. The reporting of data shall be conducted in accordance with the following policies and procedures:

(i) School districts shall prepare, and keep on file, summary reports of student data, including numbers of students who are:

(a) unserved and the reasons they are unserved; and

(b) served.

(ii) A summary report of the students served shall be submitted by local school districts to the State Education Department in a manner prescribed by the commissioner.

(5) The board of education or trustees of each school district shall keep on file the register and related summary reports which shall be available to the district superintendent of the supervisory district in which the district is located or other representatives of the State Education Department.

(6) Paragraphs (1)-(5) of this subdivision shall not apply to schools and students subject to the provisions of articles 81, 85, 87 and 88 of the Education Law and chapter 1060 of the Laws of 1974. Schools subject to the provisions of such articles and chapter shall keep their own census of students, and shall submit such census directly to the commissioner on forms prescribed by the commissioner.

(7) Procedures to locate, identify, and evaluate all nonpublic private elementary and secondary school students with disabilities, inducing religious-school children as required by the Education Law must be established to ensure the equitable participation of parentally placed private school students with disabilities and an accurate count of such students. The child find activities must be similar to activities undertaken for students with disabilities in public schools and must be completed in a time period comparable to that for other students attending public schools in the school district. The school district shall consult with representatives of private schools and representatives of parents of parentally placed private school students with disabilities on the child find process.

(i) If a student a parentally-placed, or is going to be parentally-placed in a private elementary or secondary school that is not located in the student's school district of residence, parental consent, or consent of a student 18 years of age or older, must be obtained before any personally identifiable information about the student is released between officials in the district where the private school is located and officials in the parent's district of residence.

(ii) The school district shall maintain in its records and report to the commissioner, in a manner prescribed by the commissioner, on the number of students enrolled in such private schools by their parents who are evaluated to determine if they are students with disabilities, the number of such students who are determined to have a disability and the number of such students who received special education services under this Part.