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This policy was signed into law in 2015

What is the ESSA (every student succeeds act)?

100

This is the meeting required every time a student changes school or residential foster care placement

What is a Best Interest Determination Meeting?

100
According to ESSA, a student is entitled to educational stability and should not have to ______ from their SOO upon placement change.

What is withdraw?

100

This is common diagnosis is often categorized under OHI or Other Health Impairment.

What is ADHD?

100

An example would be preferential seating or extended time on testing.

What is an accommodation?

200

This education policy came out of the Bush administration and contained federal oversight for testing and other accountability structures

What is NCLB (No Child Left Behind)?

200
This is the agency name represented in many educational policies by the acronym SEA

What is the State Education Agency?

200

This meeting is required each time a youth in foster care changes foster care placement.

What is a BID Meeting (or, Bes Interest Determination Meeting)?

200

This qualifying diagnosis encompasses a wide array of abilities, cognition levels, and behaviors.

What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?

200

This plan includes accommodations, but the student attends all general education classes.

What is a 504 Plan?

300

This is the policy that was originally enacted in 1965 and was re-authorized with provisions in 2015

What is ESEA (elementary and secondary education act)?

300

This is the accommodation plan that can be instituted for a student with a qualifying diagnosis, but does not offer specific resources or services.

What is a Section 504 Plan?

300

These are the guiding principals created by the SC DoE to maintain a student in foster care's academic progress.

What are Stability Protocols?

300
This qualifying diagnosis often requires assistive technology such as a screen-reader.

What is Visual Impairment or Blindness?

300

This plan can include Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, or Speech Therapy Services, all of which are provided during the student's regular school day.

What is an IEP?

400

This is the policy that protects the educational stability for youth experiencing housing insecurity

What is the McKinney-Vento Act?

400

This is the name of the policy that provides equity and access to education for students with various diabilities.

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act? (or IDEA)

400

When a student's behavior leads to multiple disciplinary infractions, there may be a need for _____________.

What is a psych-educational evaluation, or evaluation for SpEd services?

400

This qualifying diagnosis often results in a student graduating through their IEP and receiving modified curriculum.

What is an intellectual or cognitive disability?

400

This plan supports students who struggle with impulse control, emotional dysregulation, and sensory processing disorders.

What is BIP? (Behavior Intervention Plan)

500

This policy was unanimously passed in 2008 in an effort to improve permanency outcomes for youth in foster care.

What is the Fostering Connections Act?

500

This acronym refers to the educational setting that the student attended when they first entered care or experienced a placement change.

What is the School of Origin (SOO)?

500

State Regulation 430274 VII (B) allows school districts to make exceptions for the 120 hour __________ rule for students who approved excessive absences; this same regulation can protect highly transient youth from absenteeism policies that can impact credits.

What are attendance hours? Or absences?

500

Statistically, this fraction of youth impacted by foster care carry a qualifying diagnosis, even though they may not be receiving Special Education services.

What is 1/3?

500

This plan serves Multi Lingual learners

What is an ILAP? (Individualized Language Acquisition Plan)