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Parent's Rights
Initial Evaluation
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Due Process Hearing
100
The school is required to give you this notice only one time a school year. Except they will give you another copy if there is an initial referral or you have requested an evaluation.
What is NOTICE OF PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARDS?
100
The school needs your informed consent to provide special education services to your child for this...
What is INITIAL SERVICES?
100
Your child's placement is changed if the removal is for more than 10 consecutive school days or if a series of shorter removals totaling more than 10 school days forms a pattern.
What is CHANGE OF PLACEMENT?
100
TEA must give notice that is adequate to fully inform parents about confidentiality of personally identifiable information,
What is NOTICE TO PARENTS?
100
You or your attorney representing you must send a written request for a due process hearing or to TEA. You must send a copy of your written request to the school.
What is REQUESTING A DUE PROCESS HEARING?
200
The process of all children with disabilities residing in the state who are in need of special education or related services must be identified, located, and evaluated.
What is CHILD FIND?
200
The school must get your consent to do this to your child unless it can demonstrate that it took reasonable measures to obtain your consent and you failed to respond.
What is REEVALUATION?
200
If your child's conduct is a manifestation of his/her disability, the ARD committee must conduct a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and implement a Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP) for your child.
What is WHEN BEHAVIOR IS A MANIFESTATION?
200
The school must protect the confidentiality of your child's records at collection, storage, disclosure, and destruction stages.
What is SAFEGUARDS AND DESTRUCTION?
200
Within 15 calendar days of receiving your request for a due process hearing the school must convene a meeting called...
What is RESOLUTION MEETING?
300
As a parent you have the right to be given written information about the school's actions relating to your child's special education needs. the school must give you this before it proposes to initiate or change the identification, evaluation, or educational placement of your child or the Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)provided.
What is PRIOR WRITTEN NOTICE?
300
Your consent is not required before the school reviews existing data as part of your child's evaluation or reevaluation or gives your child a test or other evaluation that is given to all children unless parental consent is required for all children. The school may not use your refusal to consent to one service or activity to deny you or your child any other service, benefit, or activity.
What is OVERRIDE PROCEDURES?
300
When your child is removed from his or her current educational placement either because of special circumstances or because the behavior is not a manifestation of your child's disability.
What is ALTERNATIVE SETTING?
300
You have the right to request and obtain a list of the types and locations of education records collected, maintained, or used by the school.
What is TYPES AND LOCATIONS?
300
The ______ cannot be an employee of the TEA or any agency involved in the education or care of your child and cannot have any personal or professional interest that would conflict with his or her objectivity in the hearing.
What is HEARING OFFICER?
400
Your informed consent means that you have been given all the information related to the action for which your permission is sought.
What is PARENTAL CONSENT?
400
If you disagree with an evaluation provided by the school, you have the right to request that your child be evaluated by a qualified person who is not employed by the school by public expense.
What is INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION?
400
If you disagree with any decision regarding disciplinary placement or manifestation determination you have the right to request this.
What is EXPEDITED DUE PROCESS HEARING?
400
You have the right to review your child's entire education record including the parts that are related to special education. No more than 45 calendar days after the date of the request must the school have the documents available for your review.
What is ACCESS AND TIMELINES?
400
As part of the appeal process, the court must receive the records of the due process hearing, hear additional evidence at the request of either party, base its decision on the preponderance of the evidence, and grant any appropriate relief.
What is CIVIL ACTION?
500
Requires schools to provide parents of a child with a disability with a notice containing a full explanation of the procedural safeguards available under this act and its implementing regulations.
What is IDEA?
500
If the school requests a due process hearing and a hearing officer determines that the school's evaluation is appropriate or that the IEE you obtained does not meet the school's IEE criteria, the school does not have to pay for the IEE.
What is HEARING OFFICER DETERMININATION?
500
The IDEA does not prohibit a school from reporting a crime committed by a child with a disability to appropriate authorities or prevent state law enforcement and judicial authorities from exercising their responsibilities.
What is REFERRAL TO AND ACTION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES?
500
You may ask the school to amend the information in your child's records. If you feel that they are inaccurate, misleading, or violate your child's rights.
What is AMENDING RECORDS?
500
______ will not include costs related to the resolution session or to ARD committee meetings, unless a hearing officer or a court ordered the ARD committee meeting.
What is AWARD OF ATTORNEY'S FEES?