Alabama Administrative Code
Title 290 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Chapter 290-8-9 - SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
Section 290-8-9-.11 - Case Manager For Children With Disabilities

(1) Case Manager. A special education teacher will be assigned as a case manager for a maximum number of student records to ensure the implementation of special education and related services for these students. The number of records to manage does not represent the number of students that a teacher will serve. Those numbers will be determined by the LEA by taking into consideration a number of factors including severity of the needs of the students, location of the services (e.g. general education classroom, resource room), the number of campuses a teacher serves, and whether all IEPs can be implemented as written. This rule does not apply to teachers providing special education services to students with disabilities in correctional facilities.

(2) Number of Student Records for Case Managers. The maximum number of records per teacher is 20; for a speech/language pathologist, the maximum number of records is 30.

(3) State Monitoring of Case Manager Rule. To monitor for compliance with the rules (1) and (2) above, the Department of Education will review the total number of students with disabilities and total number of teachers rather than by individual teacher or school.

Author: Joseph B. Morton