7 Miss. Code. R. § 3-7200-7210 - Special Grant Selection Criteria
If during the school year a special education class exceeds the maximum enrollment according to the regulations in the Referral to Placement Handbook, Part II, a request for an exemption will be submitted to the State Department of Education. The maximum class enrollment for each type of special education program is as follows:
Resource Program | 18 |
Self-Contained Program | 14 |
Home/Hospital Program | 8 |
Language/Speech Program | 60 |
Preschool (ages 3-5) Home-Based Program | 16 |
Preschool Community-Based Program | 16 |
Preschool Combination of Home-Based and Community-Based Program | 16 |
Preschool School-Based, Full-Day Program | 14 |
Preschool School-Based, Single Half-Day Program | 14 |
Preschool School-Based, Two Half-Day Programs | 24 |
* the number of special education teachers in that school who serve students with disabilities, the enrollment of each teacher; and why appropriate services cannot be provided by one of those teachers in that school,
* a clear description of why an additional class cannot be added to take care of the overload,
* whether there is a school reasonably close by to which the children over the maximum could be transferred, and
* other emergency, hardship, or special situations which justify the exemption.
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