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Special Education Handbook
2012-2013 |
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VII. LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT (LRE)
The District ensures that, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or nonpublic institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are nondisabled. Placement of students with disabilities in special classes, separate schooling or other removal from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services, modifications and/or accommodations cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
The District ensures that a continuum of alternative placements is available to meet the needs of children with disabilities for special education and related services in the least restrictive environment (LRE).
The District determines the placement of a child with a disability at least annually, and the placement is based on the child’s IEP, and is as close as possible to the child’s home.
Unless the IEP of a child with a disability requires some other arrangement, the child is educated in the school that the child would attend if nondisabled.
In selecting the LRE for a child with a disability, the IEP team considers any potential harmful effect on the child or on the quality of the services that the child needs.
A child with a disability is not removed from education in age-appropriate regular classrooms solely because of needed modifications in the general education curriculum. |
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