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The words that represent the acronym FAPE.
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
FAPE must be calculated to allow the child to access and make progress in the ___________ (two words).
What is the "general curriculum"?
FAPE must not be defined by the amount or availability of this.
What is funding?
The preschool setting (Least Restrictive Environment) where most Colorado preschool students with disabilities are educated.
What is a regular preschool classroom?
FAPE for each child is determined by this team.
What is the IEP team?
The Federal Law that guarantees a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to students with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Public supervision, direction and oversight of FAPE are the responsibility of this state and local entity.
What is the Colorado Department of and the Special Education Administrative Unit?
What FAPE may cost the parent.
What is nothing?
In determining the individualized education program for each student, the IEP team must consider what the local public system makes available to this category of students.
What are "nondisabled peers"?
Regular preschool classroom, separate class, provider location, and special schools are examples of these.
What is educational setting?
The set of Colorado State Rules that govern the provision and oversight for FAPE.
What are the Rules for the Administration of the Exceptional Children's Educational Act (ECEA)?
The two types of instruction that IEP teams must determine the amount across the school year, to enable the child to access and make progress in the general curriculum.
What are regular and specialized?
The term used to describe additional preschool hours funded by CDEC, over and above what is required to achieve FAPE.
What is a supplement?
The extent to which preschool children with disabilities must be educated with children who are not disabled.
What is maximum?
The provider, building, classroom, or teacher.
What is the specific location in which a child’s IEP must be implemented?
Note: The location is not required to be specified on the child's IEP.
The age at which the FAPE entitlement begins for eligible children.
What is on or before age 3?
An IEP team may determine that an individual child needs __________ or _________ instructional hours than the standard for other children that age based on the child’s unique needs.
What is "more" or "less/fewer"?
The source of the state and federal funds distributed by the Colorado Department of Education for preschool children with IEPs.
What are Exceptional Children's Educational Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
This is allowed only when education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
What is the removal of a child with an IEP from the regular education environment?
This must be in place when the AU identifies a non-public school program, such as a Head Start or other community based childcare program, in which to implement the IEP.
What is a written agreement?
The local entity responsible for ensuring the provision of FAPE.
What is Special Education Administrative Unit?
Preschool programs that establish a set number of contact hours for all special education preschool students without regard for this do not meet the requirements of federal and state special education laws.
What is the unique needs of each child?
The fund to which the General Assembly reappropriated state preschool funds from the School Finance Act to the Colorado Department of Early Childhood beginning with the 2023-24 school year.
What is the Preschool Program Cash Fund?
These concerns are raised if preschool students with disabilities are treated differently than their nondisabled peers.
What are equity and compliance concerns related to federal and state nondiscrimination laws?
The assignment of a child to a specific location may be an administrative determination of the AU as long as the decision is made with this individual's input and participation.
What is parent?