Placement Continuum
To the maximum extent appropriate students with disabilities are educated with students without disabilities.
What is the LRE mandate?
The first placement option for LRE.
What is the General Education classroom?
A student placed by CPS in a Separate Day or Residential Placement retains
What is ALL of their Substantive and Procedural Rights under IDEA?
A decision to remove a student with disabilities from the general education setting MUST always be based on...
What is the students individual needs and not on the nature of the students disability?
The MOST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT on the Placement Continuum.
What is Home Hospital Placement?
The OSD District Representative must be invited to the IEP meeting and participate as the District Representative when...
What is when a placement of 100% removal from the general education classroom is accepted as a students LRE?
When a students current or neighborhood school cannot implement the students IEP based on the IEP placement/program recommendation(s), a request for...
What is a request for a school assignment?
61-100% removal form the General Education classroom.
What is Instruction in a Separate Class (LRE 3)?
The appropriate representative to commit the district and its resources to 100% removal from the general education setting.
Who is the OSD District Representative?
When the IEP team determines, based on data and other relevant information, that the nature or severity of a students academic or functional needs due to their disability are such that education within and OSD cluster program and integration with general education peers, with the use of special education, related services and supplementary aides and services can not be satisfactorily achieved
What is placement in a Specialty school?
A Separate Day School or Residential Facility Must provide all special education and related services and all educational accommodations and supports in accordance with the IEP and...
What is "at NO cost to the parents/guardians"?
Specialized classrooms in schools throughout the city for low incident disabilities requiring 61% or more removal AND a significantly modified curriculum.
What are Low Incidence Cluster Programs?
Category of disability; Severity of disability; Behavior; Language and communication needs; Needed modifications to curriculum; & Availability of space or educational and related services
What are factors to consider when placing a student in the Least Restrictive Environment?
Four programs that require OSD school assignment are
What are Preschool Inclusive, Preschool Intensive, Low Incidence Cluster (Moderate, Intensive, Specialty School, Transition Learning Center) Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Program for Students with Visual Impairments, Multi-Sensory, and/or Accessible Building
If an IEP team is considering whether a student with disabilities requires a Separate Day School or Residential Placement due to NEEDS OTHER THAN BEHAVIORAL needs ALL of the following guidelines must be discussed and documented
What are Highly Intensive Academic or Functional Needs, and District Programming cannot satisfactory address the adverse effects of the students disability(ies) and is insufficient to meet the students identified needs.
Four settings were educational services are provided in a separate school (i.e., 100% removal)
What are CPS Specialty School, CPS Transition Learning Center, Separate Day School & Residential placement.
Educational services/environments that can be provided in ANY CPS school
What are LRE 1 (0% - 20% in a separate classroom), LRE 2 (21% - 60% in a separate classroom), & LRE 3 (61% - 100% in a separate classroom)
If an IEP team is considering whether a student with disabilities requires a Separate Day School or Residential Placement due to behavioral needs ALL of the following guidelines must be discussed and documented
What is Highly Intensive Behavior, Frequent Behavior, and Tiered Supports and Interventions Implemented WITHOUT Success.