Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. A LEA
is required to initiate and conduct IEP meetings periodically, but not less
than annually, to review each student's IEP in order to determine whether the
annual goals for the student are being achieved and to revise the IEP as
appropriate. The LEA must notify parents of the review IEP meeting or the
review/reevaluation IEP meeting in accordance with the same procedures as the
initial IEP.
B. An additional
IEP/placement review meeting is not required when a LEA elects to move the
student to another school site within the agency when all of the information on
the IEP remains the same and the effect of the program has not been
changed.
C. The IEP team should:
1. review the student's progress toward
achieving the annual goals and objectives/benchmarks;
2. review the student's progress in the
general education curriculum;
3.
discuss any lack of expected progress toward the annual goals and in the
general education curriculum;
4.
review the results of the student's performance on any State or district-wide
assessment;
5. review the results
of any reevaluation;
6. review
information about the child provided to, or by, the parents;
7. discuss the student's anticipated
needs;
8. review the student's
special educational needs; for the preschool-aged child, address his or her
developmental needs;
9. make
updated decisions about the student's program and placement;
10. in making decisions for location of
instruction/services, refer to pages 12-14 of this handbook for
guidance;
11. any other
concerns.
D. A review
meeting must be conducted in addition to the required annual review when:
1. a student's teacher feels the student's
IEP or placement is not appropriate for the student; or
2. the student's parents believe their child
is not progressing satisfactorily or that there is a problem with the student's
IEP; or
3. the LEA proposes any
changes regarding program or placement, such as to modify, add, or delete a
goal or objective; to add or delete a related service; or
4. either a parent or a public agency
believes that a required component of the student's IEP should be changed;
or
5. the LEA must conduct an IEP
meeting if it believes that a change in the IEP may be necessary to ensure the
provision of FAPE; or
6. a hearing
officer orders a review of the student's IEP/placement document;
7. an out-of-district placement or referral
is being proposed.
NOTE: A review IEP meeting must be conducted as part of the
reevaluation process.
E. In the cases listed above, it may not be
necessary to rewrite the entire IEP/placement document. However, the following
documentation must be provided:
1. signatures
of the team members;
2. the date of
the meeting;
3. the changes made in
the IEP; and
4. the dated
signatures of the official designated representative of the system and the
parent who authorized the change.
F. In the case in which the IEP/placement
document is entirely rewritten, the date of that meeting shall become the
anniversary date for the next annual review meeting.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:1941 et
seq.
