Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. At the IEP meeting, the teacher should:
1. explain and give the parent(s)/legal
guardian the ESYP fact sheet and document receipt of it on the placement/LRE
page of the IEP;
2. discuss the
applicable criterion/criteria for screening and for determining the student
eligible and then check the applicable criterion/criteria on the program
services page of the IEP; and
3.
tell the parent(s)/legal guardian the ESYP screening date(s) and check the
date(s) on the program services page of the IEP.
B. During the school year, the teacher
should:
1. collect student performance
information/data;
2. review the
student's progress/lack of progress regularly; and
3. if applicable, complete the
Regression-Recoupment Summary Form.
C. Between March 15 and the ESYP screening
date, the teacher should?:
1. review the
student's performance information/data and IEP objectives to determine whether
the student is in need of an extended school year program;
2. once the decision has been made, the
teacher should:
a. by the fifth business day
after the ESYP screening date, send the parent(s)/legal guardian a written
notice of whether the student is eligible or ineligible (Sample letters on file
at the department). For students whose data do not support eligibility,
photocopies of the department mandated ESYP criteria documentation forms
related to the eligibility criterion used for making the preliminary
determination should be enclosed in the notification letter (Sample forms on
file at the department).
b. for
eligible students, by the 15th business day after the ESYP screening date, send
the parent(s)/legal guardian a notice to schedule the ESY-IEP meeting. The
meeting does not have to be held by the 15th business day, but it must be
scheduled (sample letter on file at the department). The ESY-IEP meeting must
be held prior to the beginning of the student's ESY program;
c. every effort must be made to gain
parent(s)/guardian participation in the ESY-IEP meeting. If the
parent(s)/guardian cannot attend the ESY-IEP, the teacher should follow the
same procedures used for a review IEP meeting (Bulletin 1706,
§442 and §443). The ESY-IEP is developed and copies of the document are sent
home to the parent(s)/guardian;
d.
the teacher should complete the ESYP Screening Determination Form and submit it
to the Director/Supervisor of Special Education by the screening
date.
D. For
eligible students, the IEP team should hold the ESY-IEP meeting (next section
information and directions).
E. For
students with a preliminary determination of ineligible and for whom the
parents/legal guardians have questions or disagree, the teacher should schedule
and hold a meeting with the IEP team to review the decision. This should be
documented on the ESY IEP by indicating whether the meeting was requested
either by the parent or by school personnel to review or determine eligibility
for extended school year services. The IEP team should indicate the student's
ESY eligibility status. If the parent continues to disagree with the LEA
decision they may exercise their rights by initiating procedures in Louisiana's
Educational Rights of Children with Exceptionalities in Public Schools.
Complaint procedures and final decisions and results will be finalized in an
expedited manner.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:1941 et
seq.
