511 IAC 7-46-1 - Federal child count procedures
Authority: IC 20-19-2-8; IC 20-19-2-16
Affected: IC 20-19-2; IC 20-35
Sec. 1.
(a) On
December 1 of each year, each public agency must count the number of students:
(1) eligible for special education and
related services; and
(2) receiving
services on that date.
If December 1 is not a school or program day, the closest instructional day must be used for the count.
(b) The state educational agency must do the
following:
(1) Report each year to the United
States Secretary of Education a total, noncumulative, unduplicated count of
students identified and provided special education and related services under
this article by the date established by the United States Department of
Education.
(2) Include in its
report a certification signed by an authorized official of the state
educational agency that the count is accurate and unduplicated.
(c) The child count report must
include the following:
(1) A count of students
enrolled on December 1 in a school or program operated by a public agency that
provides students with either:
(A) special
education and related services that meet the standards of this article;
or
(B) only special education
services if related services are not necessary for the students to benefit from
special education.
(2) A
count of students with disabilities enrolled by their parents in nonpublic
schools who are eligible for special education and related services and receive
special education or related services, or both, in accordance with
511 IAC 7-34, provided must meet
the standards of this article.
(3)
A count of students specified by age on the child count date from three (3)
years of age through the school year in which the students become twenty-two
(22) years of age within each disability category.
(4) Students placed in nonpublic residential
special schools under
511 IAC 7-42-13.
(d) The following students must
not be included in the child count report to the United States Secretary of
Education:
(1) Those not enrolled in a school
or program operated or supported by a public agency.
(2) Those provided special education that
does not meet the requirement of this article.
(3) Those not provided with a related service
needed to assist them in benefiting from special education.
(e) The state educational agency
must do the following:
(1) Establish
procedures for taking the December 1 count.
(2) Set a date by which public agencies must
submit the child count report.
(3)
Obtain certification from each public agency that the child count report
submitted by the public agency is:
(A)
noncumulative;
(B) unduplicated;
and
(C) accurate.
(4) Aggregate the data obtained
from each public agency and prepare the required reports in a form that
protects personally identifiable information.
(5) Ensure that documentation is maintained
at the state and local level to audit the accuracy of the count.
(f) The state educational agency
must collect and report annually required data to the United States Secretary
of Education. The data that is publicly reported by the state educational
agency must be reported in a manner that does not result in disclosure of data
identifiable to individual students.
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