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There will be 6 attachments as part of the advisory:
Attachment A: Proportionate Share Timeline (Page 19)
Attachment B: Suggested Roles for Proportionate Share Activities (Page 20)
Attachment C: Sample Written Affirmation (Page 21)
Attachment D: Summary of District Obligations (Page 22)
Attachment E: Sample "Services Plan" Form (Page 23)
Attachment F: Frequently Asked Questions (Page 24–26)
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) provides this consolidated Advisory to guide Massachusetts public school districts in meeting their federal obligations regarding students with disabilities enrolled by their parents in private schools, including secular, non-secular, and independent schools, or home schooled within the district.1 Districts have an obligation to locate and evaluate such students and to calculate and spend a proportionate share of federal special education (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA) grant funds on equitable services for these students. Please note that this advisory consolidates and replaces previously issued guidance, Administrative Advisory SPED 2007-2: IDEA and Private School Students (updated July 2008) and Technical Assistance Advisory SPED 2017-2: Calculating and Providing Proportionate Share Services. Both of these advisories are now withdrawn. This guidance is not intended to be a replacement for careful study of the IDEA and its implementing regulations or of controlling case law. Additional information regarding federal requirements can be found on the website of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
This Advisory will discuss proportionate share matters under the IDEA entitlement grants awarded to Massachusetts districts under DESE Fund Codes 240 (students age 3–21) and 262 (students age 3–5).2 This includes district requirements of consultation with representatives of private schools, child find, evaluation and determination of eligibility, child count, calculating proportionate share, allowable and non-allowable expenditures, development of services plans, and provision or contracting for services for privately enrolled students. The Advisory also details federal and state requirements to provide special education services to parentally-placed private school students and offers information on reconciling the differences between the two. Attached to this Advisory are a Proportionate Share Timeline, Suggested Roles for Proportionate Share Activities, Sample Written Affirmation, Summary of District, Sample "Services Plan" Form, and Frequently Asked Questions. Additional information can be found at the DESE website Proportionate Share Services for Students with Disabilities Enrolled by Their Parents in Private Schools.
DESE's intent is to simplify the instructions, delineate responsibilities, and offer clear, concise best practice guidance for proportionate share activities for Massachusetts school districts. This information is for special education administrators, school business managers, and other interested parties regarding required activities such as consultation, child find, evaluation, proportionate share calculation, and expenditures. Such activities are required to demonstrate compliance with the federal requirements of the IDEA regarding proportionate share services for eligible privately enrolled students who are educated within the geographic boundaries of the school district, including home schooled students.
Proportionate share is a portion of a district's IDEA Part B entitlement grants (DESE fund codes 240 and 262) allocated to eligible parentally-placed students who are privately educated in the district's geographic boundaries regardless of where the students live. Parentally-placed private school students with disabilities refers to children with disabilities enrolled by their parents in private, including religious and independent,3 schools or facilities that meet the definition of an elementary school or secondary school.4 It is important to note, in Massachusetts, privately enrolled students include students who are educated at home under a plan reviewed and approved by the district.
Annually, all districts with private schools or home schooled students within their geographic boundaries must calculate proportionate share, demonstrate upon request that they have spent this amount of IDEA grant funds on eligible students who are privately enrolled and educated in the district, and submit the Proportionate Share Form for both the 240 and 262 grants to DESE. Districts are required to conduct a variety of activities related to provision of proportionate share special education services for students who are privately enrolled by their parents. These activities, discussed in depth below, include consultation, child find, evaluation and determination of eligibility, determination of the proportionate share amount, expenditure of the proportionate share, development of services plans, and provision of services either directly or through contracts. DESE has developed a Proportionate Share Timeline, included below, that districts may use to plan the required activities (Attachment A: Proportionate Share Timeline).
IDEA requires that public school districts ensure that leaders of private schools and representatives of parents of parentally-placed private school children with disabilities and representatives of home school students have opportunities to engage in "timely and meaningful" consultation about the opportunity to access special education.5 Effective consultation should occur prior to other required activities and provide an opportunity for all parties to express their views and to have those views considered by the district as part of the decision-making process.6 Timely and effective consultation requires districts to invite and consult with representatives of the private schools and representatives of parents of privately enrolled and home schooled students who are educated within the geographic boundaries of the district. (Attachment B: Suggested Roles for Proportionate Share Activities)
The consultation must occur prior to providing proportionate share services and must allow input from these representatives on the types of services to be provided and the delivery of services. In this consultation, the district must discuss all of the areas that follow.
School districts must conduct child find activities for all students living or attending school in the district (ages 3–21), regardless of whether students attend public or private schools or are home schooled. Only preschool aged students (ages 3–5) who attend a public or private preschool program that meets the definition of an elementary school under the law (see page 7 for definition) may be included in child find activities for IDEA Part B grants (the 240 and 262 grants).
Child find activities for privately enrolled students must be comparable to those conducted for students in public schools and must include all students who are privately educated, including those who are home schooled, in the district. The district also must provide all private schools and students who are privately enrolled with information about how students can access publicly funded evaluations and special education services.9 (Attachment D: Summary of District Obligations)
If a student lives in one Massachusetts district but attends a private school in another district, the district in which the private school is located should contact the district in which the student lives10 to determine whether a determination has already been made regarding eligibility. Both school districts have an obligation to determine eligibility under separate laws. State law puts the obligation on the district of residence,11 and federal law requires the district where the private school is located do so.12 The district that conducts the evaluation should provide the results of the evaluation to the other district. District responsibility is determined according to the respective federal and state requirements.
IDEA requires school districts to evaluate and to determine whether students are eligible for special education services if they are privately enrolled and receiving their education within the district's boundaries. The Massachusetts school district where the private school is located may conduct its own evaluation in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and federal law13 or may accept a prior evaluation if the evaluation information is comprehensive and current.14 Eligibility for all students attending school in Massachusetts is determined using criteria based on the definitions of disability.15
After completion of timely and meaningful consultation, child find activities, and eligibility determinations, districts conduct the child count to be used in calculating proportionate share. Districts must determine the child count of students ages 3–21 for the 240 grant, and the child count of students ages 3–5 for the 262 grant, on any date between October 1 and December 1, inclusive, of each year.16 The child counts are used to determine the amount that the district must spend under each grant to provide special education and related services to parentally-placed private school children with disabilities in the subsequent fiscal year.17 The child count is the number of eligible students who are privately enrolled or home schooled and educated within the district, not the number of such students receiving services.18 Preschool aged children are considered to be parentally-placed private school students if they are enrolled in a private school that meets the definition of an elementary school.19 Because stand-alone private preschools or private childcare centers do not provide "elementary education," eligible preschool aged children attending those programs are not included in the district's proportionate share child count.
It is important to note that in calculating proportionate share, students who attend private schools located in a district other than the one in which they live are not included when the district of residence calculates or decides how to spend the proportionate share of IDEA grant funds. Students who live in one Massachusetts district and attend private school in another district must be counted for proportionate share child count activities by the district in which they attend private school, even though they may receive services through an IEP from the district in which they live, consistent with state law. This is true even though the district of residence may develop the IEPs of eligible students, provide special education and related services, and report these privately enrolled students to DESE through Student Information Management System (SIMS). Even if a parent refuses the services provided under a services plan or a student is receiving services from their district of residence, the district where the private school is located must include this child in the count of eligible private school children with disabilities in that district in determining proportionate share.20
The calculation methodology is the same for both grant codes. To calculate proportionate share, the district must know:
Example — 240 Grant
There are five (5) eligible private school students enrolled in private schools or home schooled within the geographic boundaries of Anytown District; two (2) are district residents, one (1) lives in another Massachusetts town, one (1) lives in another state, and one (1) is home schooled. The district also serves 495 eligible students who reside and are enrolled in the district.
Anytown District also serves five (5) students who are enrolled in private schools located in other districts, as required by Massachusetts law. These students are, however, not included in Anytown District's proportionate share calculation. Rather, these students must be included in the proportionate share calculation for the districts in which the private schools they attend are located.
The total number of eligible students both privately enrolled and enrolled in public schools in Anytown District is 500. This includes the five privately enrolled or home schooled students referred to above and 495 eligible students enrolled in the district. The district's proportion of eligible parentally-placed private school students to all eligible students is 5:500 or 1%.
Anytown District received $200,000 as its Fund Code 240 grant. Because the proportion of private school students with disabilities is 1% of all students with disabilities, the "proportionate share" of the 240 funds is 1% of the total grant of $200,000, or $2,000. Anytown District must spend at least $2,000 of its 240 grant on services21 for the five parentally-placed private school students and home schooled students educated in the district to meet its proportionate share obligation under Fund Code 240.
Example — 262 Grant
Of the five (5) eligible private school students enrolled in private schools or home schooled within the geographic boundaries of Anytown District, one of them is a preschool-aged child (3–5 yeas old) who attends a private preschool program that is part of a private elementary school in the district. The district serves 9 eligible preschool students who reside and are enrolled in the public school district.
The total number of eligible preschool students privately enrolled and enrolled in public schools in Anytown District is 10. This includes the one privately enrolled preschool child referred to above and 9 eligible preschool students enrolled in the district. The district's proportion of eligible parentally-placed private preschool students to all eligible preschool students is 1:10 or 10%.
Anytown District received $2,500 as its Fund Code 262 grant. Because the proportion of private preschool students with disabilities is 10% of all preschool students with disabilities, the "proportionate share"of the 262 grant is 10% of the total grant of $2,500, or $250.
Anytown District must spend at least $250 of its 262 grant on services for the one parentally-placed private preschool student educated in the district to meet its proportionate share obligation under Fund Code 262.
Finally, once timely and meaningful consultation has occurred, the proportionate share is calculated, and the district has determined the services that it will provide under each grant, the district documents how it will spend the proportionate share funds for each grant in the next subsequent fiscal year. DESE collects this information annually in the Proportionate Share Calculation Forms.
If the school district disagrees with the views of the private school officials on the provision or type of services under either grant, the district must provide private school officials with a written explanation of the reasons the district chose not to provide services directly or through a contract. The school district, however, has the final decision-making authority.
Under federal law, school districts determine which services to provide with the proportionate share of federal funds under each grant following consultation with representatives of the private schools located in the district and parent representatives of eligible private school and home schooled students. There are many ways in which the district may decide to spend proportionate share funds following consultation. For example, depending on the proportionate share amount, students' needs, and other considerations discussed during consultation, the district may expend the entire federal proportionate share on only one eligible student or may decide to allocate an amount for services for more than one or for all of the students. Regardless of what a district may spend on IEP services for privately enrolled students who live in the district, any districts with a private school located in its geographic boundaries that eligible students attend must calculate proportionate share under each grant and must demonstrate how the district will spend 240 and 262 grant funds in that proportionate amount on special education services for these students.
The federal regulations regarding expenditure of proportionate share funds make clear that state and local funds may be used to supplement but not supplant the required expenditure of federal funds.22 If a district has not expended their proportionate share minimum obligation of federal funds for either grant by the end of the fiscal year, the district must obligate and carry over the remaining funds for special education and related services for privately enrolled students for one year.23 Using federal funds, districts may provide services for students who are privately enrolled on the premises of the private schools.24 Districts also may provide transportation.25 As a reminder, state and local funds may be used to provide services at the public school or another public or neutral site.
If a district has not met the minimum level of required proportionate share expenditure for the fiscal year under either grant, they must carry over the additional amount not spent to the next fiscal year's proportionate share obligation for that grant. After the carry-over period, if a district is unable to expend the entire proportionate share, and assuming the district is in compliance with the child find, consultation, and other requirements related to parentally-placed private school children with disabilities, they may use the unexpended funds — at the end of the period during which the funds may be spent on parentally-placed private school children — to pay for other allowable IDEA district expenditures for eligible students served under the grant.26 This situation should be the exception, and reasons for it should be clearly documented by the district.
Anytown District calculates a proportionate share amount of $1,400 of its 240 grant that it needs to spend in FY19 for purposes of proportionate share on services for eligible private school students attending a private school or home schooled in the district's boundaries. There is only one eligible private school student, age 4, and his parents decline services. The public school district offers to spend proportionate share funds on indirect services such as professional development for private school personnel working with the student. The private school also declines this offer. Therefore, Anytown District cannot spend its proportionate share of its 240 grant for FY19. For FY20, Anytown District must add the $1,400 of carry-over funds to the 240 proportionate share amount for FY20. The district will report these carry-over funds on the budget tab of the proportionate share form that it submits with the grant application for Fund Code 240.
Anytown District calculates a proportionate share amount of $250 of its 262 grant that it needs to spend in FY19 for purposes of proportionate share on services for eligible private preschool students (ages 3–5) attending a private preschool program that meets the definition of an elementary school or home schooled in the district's boundaries. There is only one eligible private school student, age 4, and his parents decline services. The public school district offers to spend proportionate share funds on indirect services such as professional development for private school personnel working with the student. The private school also declines this offer. Therefore, Anytown District cannot spend its proportionate share of its 262 grant for FY19. For FY20, Anytown District must add the $250 of carry-over funds to the 262 proportionate share amount for FY20. The district will report these carry-over funds on the budget tab of the proportionate share form that it submits with the grant application for Fund Code 262.
Equipment and Materials: The district must control and administer federal funds used to provide special education and related services. The district must oversee all materials, equipment, and property purchased with those funds including, but not limited to, ownership of and rights to such materials, equipment, and property. Equipment and supplies may be placed in a private school for a period of time only to service eligible individual students and only if the equipment and supplies can be removed without remodeling the private school facility. The district must remove such equipment and supplies when no longer serving those students or if the equipment and supplies are being used in an unauthorized manner. Districts may not use funds for any repairs, minor remodeling, or construction of private school facilities.33
Requirement: Proportionate share funds are intended only to benefit eligible students who are parentally-placed in private schools or home schooled. Funds must not "finance the existing level of instruction in a private school or … otherwise benefit the private school."34 Public funds, including federal funds, may be used to meet the needs of the parentally-placed private school children and may not be used to benefit the private school as a whole or the general needs of students enrolled in the private school.
Every parentally-placed private school child with a disability who has been designated to receive proportionate share services under either the 240 or 262 grant must have a services plan that describes the specific special education services that the district will provide, including where the district will provide services to the student.35 A sample services plan is included as attachment (Attachment E: Sample "Services Plan" Form). A services plan is not the same as an IEP that eligible students are entitled to receive from the district in which they live. Districts, however, to the extent appropriate, must develop, review, and revise services plans consistent with the IEP process. This includes, but is not limited to, inviting private school representatives and parents to meetings to develop services plans.36 The parents of the child are required participants in the meeting to develop the services plan for their child.37
Proportionate share services plans do not confer an individual entitlement to special education and related services. Additionally, IDEA does not require that a parent provide written consent to a services plan. A parent, however, may refuse services proposed in a services plan.
Districts may use federal funds to facilitate a private school student's access to proportionate share services in a number of ways. Districts may provide services on site at the private school, provide services at a public or neutral site convenient to the private school, provide services on public school grounds, and contract for the provision of services at an appropriate site, ensuring that they provide transportation to the students. Many private schools would welcome the opportunity to facilitate students' access to services on the grounds of the private schools and would work cooperatively with districts to do so.
Requirements in IDEA for providing special education services to eligible private school students differ from those under state law. As described more fully below, state law requires districts to evaluate and develop IEPs for all eligible students who live in the district. In contrast, federal law requires districts to spend a "proportionate share" of their Part B federal IDEA grants — known as Fund Codes 240 and 262 in Massachusetts — on services for eligible students who are privately enrolled and educated within the geographic boundaries of the district using a "services plan."
State law regarding special education applies to all Massachusetts residents, regardless of where they attend school. It requires school districts to offer special education and related services to all eligible students who reside in the district,38 including students who are privately enrolled, regardless of where the student attends school.39 In Massachusetts, privately enrolled students are those students who attend private schools, including non-secular schools and approved special education schools at private expense,40 and students who are home schooled. Special education and related services must be designed to meet the needs of eligible students and must provide these students with a genuine opportunity to participate in the public school special education program. Students have an individual entitlement to receive these services. The school district must provide or arrange for evaluation, convene at Team to determine eligibility and create an IEP, and make services available to all eligible students who reside in the district, regardless of where they attend school.
Under state law, services described in an IEP that are funded with state or local funds must be provided in a public school facility or in another public or neutral site.41 Schools may provide services at the private school if only federal funds are used; state and local funds cannot be used for services at private schools. State law requires that special education and related services for eligible privately enrolled students must be comparable in quality, scope, and opportunity for participation to those provided to public school students with disabilities,42 and must be described in an IEP. Eligible privately enrolled students served by the districts in which they live have individual educational and due process rights, as defined in IDEA.
Students attending private school may also receive services under Federal law from the district where the private school is located as described below.
Federal special education law, IDEA, also requires school districts to provide special education services to eligible privately enrolled students. Federal law, however, does not provide such students an individual entitlement, the development of IEPs, or the same due process rights. Under IDEA, school districts must conduct child find activities and evaluations to determine students' eligibility for special education.43 In contrast to state law that requires all eligible students to have an IEP, federal law requires school districts to expend a "proportionate share" of the federal grant money districts receive under Part B of IDEA (grants 240 and 262) to provide services to parentally-placed and privately enrolled students.44 Proportionate share means that the district must spend an amount of each of these grants on services for eligible students who attend a private school in the district that corresponds to the proportion that these private school students represent in comparison with the total population of students with IEPs served by the district under each grant.45 Federal due process protections generally are not available to privately enrolled students receiving equitable services under IDEA.46
Following timely and meaningful consultation with private school and parent representatives (see p. 5) of students attending schools located within the district, school districts must make decisions regarding the child find process and which services to provide with the proportionate share of 240 and 262 grant funds. Districts provide these services to eligible private school students attending a private school within the geographic boundaries of the district through a "services plan" instead of an IEP,47 because privately enrolled students do not have an individual entitlement to the full range of special education and related services under federal law. The district must make reasonable efforts to provide the services on the plan to the private school student in the community where the private school is located. If, after making such efforts, the district determines that no such arrangements are feasible, the district may serve the student in the district of residence or another location.48 The district may need to provide the student with transportation in order to ensure that the student has access to the necessary services.49
Federal law requires that the district where the private school is located, rather than the district of residence, fulfill the requirements for child find and for proportionate share services.50 This is intended to improve private school students' access to special education services by decreasing obstacles to student participation and simplifying consultation with private schools. The district where a private school is located must meet federal special education requirements for all eligible students who are privately enrolled in schools within the geographic boundaries of the district, regardless of where those students live.
Massachusetts law, however, requires the school district where the student resides to offer special education and related services to eligible students through IEPs. Students who live in Massachusetts have individual entitlements to special education and related services as described on their IEPs. The districts in which privately enrolled students live are responsible for finding, evaluating, and providing services to such students.
Because there is an overlap of responsibilities under federal and state law, a parent may choose whether to seek an evaluation and services from the district of residence or from the district in which their child is privately enrolled.51 When a request for an evaluation is received by a district, DESE recommends that the district consult with other districts that may have evaluated or provided services to the student.
A district's obligations under state and federal law will vary depending upon where students live and where they are privately enrolled and the choices a parent makes regarding evaluation and services for their child. For some students who are privately enrolled, such as those who are home schooled, the district in which they live will be the same as the district in which they attend school. In those situations, the district of residence is responsible for fulfilling all obligations under state and federal law. Other students live in one district and attend a private school in another district. In these cases, the two districts will need to coordinate to meet state and federal obligations for these students. The district in which the student attends private school is responsible for meeting federal proportionate share obligations, and the district of residence is responsible for meeting state special education requirements of free, appropriate public education. For students who reside in another state but attend a private school in Massachusetts, the district in which the private school is located must fulfill the proportionate share obligations under federal law.
Under federal law, a private school official or a parent has the right to submit a complaint to DESE that the district did not meet the requirements under IDEA for privately enrolled students, such as engaging in consultation that was timely and meaningful or giving due consideration to the views of the private schools. Such complaints may be made through DESE's Problem Resolution System and must allege "a violation that occurred not more than one year prior to the date that the complaint is received."52
Under federal law, however, parents are not entitled to due process protections to challenge the sufficiency of the proposed proportionate share services or the districts' actions in connection with a services plan for a student. A parent, however, may file a complaint with the district regarding child find requirements.53 Child find complaints should be filed with the district in which the private school is located and a copy must be forwarded to the DESE's Problem Resolution System.
Parents of eligible students who live in Massachusetts may also receive special education and related services through an IEP from their district of residence. Such parents and students have access to the full range of dispute resolution and due process options described in state and federal law. They may file a state complaint with DESE through the Problem Resolution System or seek a hearing or mediation with the Bureau of Special Education Appeals on any matter related to evaluation or special education services.
DESE will exercise oversight of proportionate share activities in three ways. These include annual reviews of data; (2) Coordinated Program Review processes; and (3) financial audits.
We hope this Advisory assists special education administrators, school business managers, and other interested parties in understanding these requirements and in ensuring that local practices are consistent with state and federal law.
If you have any questions or require additional information regarding this Advisory, please contact us at: IDEAEquitableServices@doe.mass.edu.
Thank you for your cooperation and your service to students.
1 Federal Provisions Related to Children With Disabilities Enrolled by Their Parents in Private Schools 34 CFR §§300.130-300.144.
2 Starting in FY19, administration of Fund Code 262, the Early Childhood Part B IDEA entitlement grant, will be the responsibility of DESE rather than the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC).
3 This term does not include students placed by their parents in private special education schools who are seeking public tuition for such programs. This advisory does not address the specific requirements that apply in the latter circumstance.
4 34 CFR § 300.130.
5 34 CFR § 300.134.
6 Q and A: Questions and Answers On Serving Children With Disabilities Placed by Their Parents at Private Schools, OSERS, April 2011 (revised), Answer to Question A-1.
7 603 CMR 28.03(1)(e)(3).
8 34 CFR § 300.135.
9 34 CFR § 300.131.
10 Also referred to as "district of residence."
11 M.G.L. c. 71B, § 3; St. 1999, c. 127, § 258; 603 CMR 28.03(1)(e).
12 34 CFR § 300.131.
13 See 603 CMR 28.04 and 20 U.S.C. § 1414.
14 Q and A: Questions and Answers On Serving Children With Disabilities Placed by Their Parents at Private Schools, OSERS, April 2011 (revised), Answer to Question B-4.
15 See 603 CMR 28.02(2).
16 Because districts must calculate and spend a proportionate share of funds under each Part B IDEA entitlement grant, they must conduct a separate calculation for the 262 grant, even though 3 to 5 year olds are also included in the child count for the 240 grant. See FAQ no. 12 on page 25, for further explanation
17 34 CFR § 300.133(c)(2).
18 Q and A: Questions and Answers On Serving Children With Disabilities Placed by Their Parents at Private Schools, OSERS, April 2011 (revised), Answer to Question H-2.
19 34 CFR § 300.133(a)(2)(ii).
20 U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, Office of Non-Public Education, The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA): Provisions Related to Children With Disabilities Enrolled by Their Parents in Private Schools, Washington D.C., 2008, 8.
21 The school district cannot include the costs of conducting child find activities and of evaluating students in determining whether the district has met its proportionate share obligations under federal law. 34 CFR § 300.131(d).
22 34 CFR § 300.133(d).
23 34 CFR § CFR 300.133(a)(3).
24 34 CFR § 300.139(a).
25 34 CFR § 300.139(b).
26 Allowable and unallowable expenditures are the same under the 240 and 262 grant codes.
27 34 CFR § 300.142.
28 Q and A: Questions and Answers On Serving Children With Disabilities Placed by Their Parents at Private Schools, OSERS, April 2011 (revised), Answer to Question C-2.
29 34 CFR § 300.144.
30 34 CFR § 300.139.
31 34 CFR § 300.143.
32 34 CFR § 300.144(e).
33 34 CFR § 300.144(e).
34 34 CFR § 300.141.
35 34 CFR § 300.138.
36 34 CFR §§300.321 through 300.324 and 34 CFR §300.138(b)(2)(ii).
37 Questions and Answers on Serving Children with Disabilities Placed by Their Parents in Private Schools, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), April 2011, Answer to Question E-2.
38 M.G.L. c. 71B, § 3.
39 St. 1999, c. 127, Section 258; 603 CMR 28.03(1)(e).
40 This does not include students who attend approved special education schools at public expense.
41 603 CMR 28.03(1)(e)(3).
42 603 CMR 28.03(1)(e)(4).
43 20 U.S.C. § 1412(a)(10)(A); 34 CFR § 300.131.
44 34 CFR § 300.133.
45 20 USC § 1412(a)(10)(A).
46 34 CFR § 300.140. A due process complaint may be filed regarding child find with the district in which the student is privately enrolled. Disputes regarding equitable services, such as a failure to properly conduct the consultation process, may be addressed through the state complaint procedures.
47 34 CFR §§ 300.132(b), 300.137-300.139.
48 Students may receive services at the public school or in another public or neutral setting.
49 The cost of transportation may be included in calculating whether the district has met the proportionate share obligation. 34 CFR § 300.139(b)(2).
50 34 CFR § 300.131.
51 For some students who are privately enrolled, the district in which they live will be the same as the district in which they attend school.
52 34 CFR § 300.153(c). This includes complaints for continuing violations and for compensatory services. Questions and Answers on IDEA Part B Dispute Resolution Procedures, OSERS, July 2013 (revised), Answer to Question B-18.
53 34 CFR § 300.140.
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