Navigating SSM
This document initiates the Section 504 referral process in SSM.
What is the Request for 504 Plan?
This indicator measures the percentage of children evaluated within 60 days of receiving parental consent for initial evaluation.
What is Indicator 11?
This federal law ensures students with disabilities are provided a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE).
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
The Case Manager must coordinate all components of an initial Full and Individual Evaluation (FIE) to ensure it is completed within this many school days after receiving signed parental consent.
What is 60 school days?
School officials can suspend a student with an IEP or 504 plan up to this many consecutive or cumulative school days in a single year under standard Student Code of Conduct (SCC) measures before enhanced safeguards apply.
What is 10 school days?
This document is required to allow the district to initiate provision of Special Education and/or Related Services.
What is the Consent for Initial Special Education Services?
This indicator measures the percentage of youth with IEPs aged 16 and above with an IEP that include appropriate measurable postsecondary goals that are annually updated and based upon age-appropriate transition assessments; transition services, including courses of study, that will reasonably enable the student to meet those postsecondary goals; and annual IEP goals related to the student’s transition service needs.
What is Indicator 13: Secondary Transition?
Which legal mandate under IDEA requires public schools to locate and evaluate all children with suspected disabilities within their jurisdiction, including those enrolled in local private schools?
What is Child Find?
To ensure parents can prepare for decision-making, complete drafts of the IEP or 504 evaluations must be provided to the parent or guardian at least this many school days prior to the conference.
What is three school days?
This landmark 2015 Illinois legislation dramatically reformed student discipline by eliminating automatic "zero-tolerance" policies and requiring schools to use out-of-school suspensions and expulsions only as a last resort.
What is Senate Bill 100 (SB100)?
This SSM report details the students currently requiring English Language Learner (ELL) and Bilingual Special Education programming.
What is the ELL and Bilingual Special Ed Model - School report?
These two indicators measure the percentage of youth youth with IEPs graduating from high school with a regular diploma and the percentage of youth with IEPs dropping out of high school.
What are Indicators 1 and 2: Graduation and Drop-Out?
SPP Indicator 1: A results indicator that measures the percentage of youth with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) graduating from high school with a regular diploma.
SPP Indicator 2: A results indicator that measures the percentage of youth with IEPs dropping out of high school.
This civil rights law bars discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in any federally funded public program, including schools, hospitals, and social services.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
If a school team determines that a parent's referral for an FIE is not warranted, they must issue a formal denial notice and a copy of the Procedural Safeguards within this strict timeframe.
What is 14 school days from the date the school received the referral?
If an MDR team finds that a student's misconduct was a manifestation of their disability, the team is mandated to immediately review, revise, or complete what specific document?
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and/or Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP)?
During the Out of District process, this letter is generated to indicate that the previous IEP is rejected and that CPS will provide comparable services until a new IEP is developed.
What is Letter 3?
This indicator measures the percentages of school-aged students with IEPs served inside the general education classroom 80% or more of the school day.
What is Indicator 5a?
Under Section 504, a student qualifies for a written protection plan if they possess a physical or mental impairment that causes this type of constraint on one or more major life activities.
What is a substantial limitation?
To establish eligibility under the specific classifications of an Intellectual Disability or a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), the evaluation process must explicitly include an assessment from this specialist.
What is a school psychologist?
Senate Bill 100 reformed the school's discipline practices banning zero-tolerance policies and established strict due process rights for long term suspensions and expulsions. Name 2 due process protections afforded to students facing disciplinary action?
What are...
1. Allowing the student to explain their side of the story and determine disciplinary action, if any.
2. Provide the parent/guardian with a written (hand deliver, email, mail) Misconduct Report outlining -Detailed incident/misconduct,
-SCC violation, Consequence (Punitive or Restorative),
-and Parent's Right to Appeal the Decision and the corresponding process.
When an IEP team determines a student is eligible for a CPS Transition Program, what official attestation document is required from the school to confirm the student met graduation requirements and to explain why their diploma is being held by the sending school?
What is the Transition Program Grade 12 document in SSM?
This indicator examines rates of suspension and expulsion.
What are Indicators 4A and Indicator 4B.
SPP Indicator 4A: A results indicator that measures the rates of suspension/expulsion (percentage of districts that have a significant discrepancy in the rate of suspensions/expulsions greater than 10 cumulative days in a school year for children with IEPs).
SPP Indicator 4B: A compliance indicator that measures the rates of suspension and expulsion (percentage of districts that have [a] a significant discrepancy, by race or ethnicity, in the rate of suspensions and expulsions greater than 10 days in a school year for children with IEPs and [b] policies, procedures or practices that contribute to the significant discrepancy and do not comply with requirements relating to the development and implementation of IEPs, the use of positive behavioral interventions and supports, and procedural safeguards.
Under the age mandates of IDEA in Illinois, a student with a qualifying disability retains the right to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) until this specific day.
What is the day before their 22nd birthday (or through the end of the school year if their birthday occurs mid-year)?
When a Related Service Provider is preparing an evaluation report, what four required diagnostic lenses or procedures must they complete to satisfy the RIOT documentation framework?
R - Review (record review including, but not limited to, MTSS or other response to interventions data, any private sector reports, and diagnoses)
I - Interview (parent/guardian, teacher, and/or student)
O - Observe (formal or informal observation of student in multiple settings)
T - Test (formal and informal assessment measures)
A ______ _________ is when a school or school district requests a parent to pick up a student early or keep a student at home due to the student's behavior. This meets the requirement of a suspension in Section 10-22.6.
What is an informal removal?