Operating Standards for Children with Disabilities UpdateDecember 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 disabilities3

RULE CHANGES

Rule 3301-51-01 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 3301-51-02

Free Appropriate Public Education

Rule 3301-51-03

Child Find

Rule 3301-51-04

Confidentiality

Informed Consent and Health Care Benefits

Prior Written Notice

Notice of Scholarship (Autism and Peterson) availability

Resolution Sessions

Rule 3301-51-05 Procedural Safeguards

Removes required reevaluation for transitioning preschool children

Children with hearing impairments or deafness

Rule 3301-51-06 Evaluation

Rule 3301-51-07 Individualized Education Program

Age 14 Transition Planning and Services

Comprehensive eye exam

Responsibility for child find and services for children on scholarship

Rule 3301-51-08 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 3301-51-09: Delivery of Services

No single source of information

Removes language related to units

Transportation

Rule 3301-51-11Preschool Children Eligible for Special

Education

Rule 3301-51-21Providing instructional materials to children with visual impairments and others with print

disabilities               

Approved Textbook Publishers List

Electronic textbooks

Timeline and Input on Rules RevisionSeptember 2012

list generated of needed changesState Advisory Panel for Exceptional Children (SAPEC)

Meeting – discussion of upcoming 5 year rule review of Operating Standards

October 2012first draft of proposed amendments

November 2012 SAPEC Meeting –draft of proposed amendments discusseddraft 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 RevisionFebruary 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 StepsJanuary 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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