La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CI-103

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section CI-103 - Child Find Guidelines

A. General Information

1. The Local Educational Agency (LEA) shall ensure that:

a. all students with exceptionalities residing in the district, including students with exceptionalities who are homeless children or who are wards of the state, and students with exceptionalities attending private schools, regardless of the severity of their disability, and who are in need of special education and related services, are identified, located, and evaluated; and

b. a practical method is developed and implemented to determine which students are currently receiving needed special education and related services.

2. Each LEA shall document that on-going identification activities are conducted to identify, locate, and evaluate each student who is suspected of having an exceptionality, is in need of special education and related services, and meets the criteria listed below:

a. is enrolled in an educational program operated by or under the jurisdiction of a public agency;

b. is enrolled in a private school program within the geographical jurisdiction of a public agency;

c. is enrolled in a public or private preschool or day care program; or

d. is not enrolled in a school, except for students who have graduated with a regular high school diploma.

B. Child find shall also include:

1. students who are suspected of being students with exceptionalities and in need of special education, even though they are advancing from grade to grade; and

2. highly mobile students, including migrant students.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CI-103

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 35:895 (May 2009), effective July 1, 2009.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:1941 et seq.