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[quote=Anonymous]My child has dyslexia and needs a reading intervention class (EBLI). MCPS has agreed to provide it through IEP services, but they are saying that the class must happen as an elective. My child is in a language immersion middle school. In order to stay in the program they've been in since kindergarten, they must remain in an immersion language class (which is the elective). So, the school has proposed that our only options are to a) agree to the IEP and reading intervention as an elective, which will then require my child to go back to their home school. Or, b) decline the IEP and ALL of the other services in the IEP to keep my child in their current school.

I proposed having my child temporarily miss Physical Education and instead take the reading intervention class at that time. They said intervention can only happen during electives. Maryland’s COMAR 13A.04.13 Program in Physical Education allows schools to develop an individualized action plan for students who are temporarily unable to participate in the standards-based physical education program.

But, COMAR 13A.04.13.01 also states that "local school systems may not . . . excuse students from standards-based physical education to participate in other content area classes or to complete classwork assignments in other content areas".

Special education services can legally be provided during any part of the school day if that is what the IEP team determines is necessary for the student to receive FAPE. There is no federal law, no Maryland regulation, and no MCPS policy that restricts special education or reading intervention to elective periods only.

I am working on a long response/rebuttal based on many other factors that I haven't mentioned here.

But, my questions for the moment are:
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Is an IEP-required reading intervention class is considered a "content area" class?

Has anyone ever successfully had an intervention class happen in place of physical education, temporarily?[/b]

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