Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part XCVII - Bulletin 1530-Louisiana's IEP Handbook for Students with Exceptionalities
Chapter 1 - Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Section XCVII-131 - Additional Clarification

A. Although throughout Louisiana most students with exceptionalities are served in their neighborhood schools there are some extenuating circumstances that influence the decision to serve a student in a school other than his or her neighborhood school.

B. For Students with Disabilities. The following is provided as an example: In a small LEA, there may be only four multidisabled students who need a multidisabled self-contained class. The LEA may establish one classroom within the LEA. Those multidisabled students could be grouped together on a centrally located campus as age-appropriate as possible. Because of the limited number of students, the age span may be greater than the 3-year span. In this situation, ages may be from 10-14 years-with two children being 10-years-old, one being 11, and one being 14. When the administration decides to locate this class on an elementary K-6 campus because the majority of the class is of elementary age, there could be adequate justification to allow the 14-year-old to remain on the elementary campus. This placement is not a desirable situation, but a necessity in some cases.

C. For Students who are Gifted and/or Talented. The following is provided as an example: A Resource Center for Gifted/Talented is a type of instructional setting, designed or located in one school, that provides instructional services to students who are gifted/talented from two or more schools and in which special education is provided by an individual certified in accordance with Bulletin 746; pupil/teacher ratios established in Bulletin 1706, Part B, are used.