SECTION 343.491. Special Education  


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  • (a) The facility administrator, through a cooperative effort with the Local Education Agency (LEA), will ensure that residents with disabilities are provided a free and appropriate public education as determined by the Admission, Review, and Dismissal committee in order to meet the individual educational needs of the student as defined by federal and state laws.

    (b) The facility administrator, through a cooperative effort with the LEA, will ensure that residents with disabilities have available an instructional day commensurate with that of students without disabilities, in accordance with requirements contained in 19 TAC §89.1075.

    (c) The facility administrator or designee shall send notification of a student placement in a residential facility to the LEA as required by §29.012 of the Texas Education Code and shall retain documentation of this notice.

Source Note: The provisions of this §343.491 adopted to be effective January 1, 2010, 34 TexReg 7095; amended to be effective January 1, 2015, 39 TexReg 9243