Municipal regs regarding 504 plans

[Anonymous]

Can someone whose research skills are better than mine help me out? Trying to find the section of the dc municipal regulations that pertains to 504 plans in schools.

Thanks so much.

[Anonymous]

504 plans result from a federal law, not municipal statutes. The DCPS website has some info about 504 procedures in the city, including info for students attending private or religious schools. Wrightslaw.com is also a great source of general information about the law, as well as advice about accommodations for particular conditions.

[Anonymous]

I'll add that I contacted a number of people at DCPS central office who supposedly handle 504s, and no one could give me anything useful in writing regarding their supposed procedures. What you'll get is very basic, and doesn't get into how the medical information must be presented, etc. (I think I probably posted 9 months ago about this, but our DCPS school told me that the information must be in a certain format for them to accept, but I never found an "official" DCPS requirement of this.)

[Anonymous]

Thank you both. I'm finding this process extraordinarily frustrating, because other states have their policies detailed VERY specifically in like 100+ page .pdf documents.

I think my kid is being discriminated against because of their disability, but they have refused to give us a 504 plan, and so I'm not sure where to go from here. (except to a lawyer, clearly, but I'm trying to do just a little legwork on my own)

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry to hear this. Have you asked for an eval? Then there would be a determination meeting for IEP eligibility and perhaps she would not be eligible for that but for a 504 which is what you seem to want? That's how I think it would go in our charter ...but it's not DCPS bureaucracy.

Have you looked at the OSSE website as opposed to DCPS?