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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would really like to see the training sessions for staff.  Are they open to the public or posted somewhere?[/quote]

Calm down. They are highly scripted and have to be approved by the Office of Civll Rights. [/quote]

Okay, then where can we find this?

The training for staff on how to run the IEP meetings will be key for parents to see.  They need to know what metrics the staff are using and what types of services will be covered.  How much discretion do the IEP teams really have?

Say there was a child who had an IEP whose parents placed them at a private school for 2020-2022?  What amount would be covered based on how high of a need there was?  If a child only has an IEP for speech (ie can’t say their Rs), would the private school be fully covered?  What about a child who had significant needs (ESY, virtually all of their hours were in Special Education, etc).  How will the IEP team treat 2020-21 vs 2021-2022?

All of this needs to be clear to parents.  It seems like FCPS would want to make the guidelines clear to their staff but keep parents in the dark.  Right?[/quote]

Staff trainings should be widely available in the interest of transparency.  Parents have seen how FCPS plays hide the ball and if they are truly trying to turn over a new leaf, they should be willing to share.

In the meantime, take a look at the OCR website.  It lists out the criteria about what the teams will consider.  I would prepare a document and answer each and every question.  Prepare any data that you might have.

Here is the relevant information:

Section I: Criteria for Determining Provision of FAPE and Compensatory Education

A. To determine the provision of FAPE and compensatory education, each IEP team or Section 504 Plan knowledgeable committee must consider, at minimum, the following criteria:

Note: Parents/guardians will have access to information recorded by FCPS, if any, regarding the amount of special education and/or related aids and services provided to the student during the Pandemic Period, including IEP and Section 504 Plan service logs.

1. Did FCPS fail to provide the student with the regular or special education and related aids/services required by the student's Section 504 Plan or IEP that was in effect at the beginning of March 2020?

1a. Did the student receive the amount and type of the regular or special education, and related aids/services that were required by the Section 504 Plan or IEP that was in effect at the beginning of March 2020.
1ai. The services provided by parents or guardians during the Pandemic Period will not be counted as services provided by FCPS that were required by existing IEP/504 Plans.

2. Were changes made to the student's IEP or Section 504 Plan during the Pandemic Period (Temporary Learning Plans (TLPs), Virtual IEPs, or other remote learning plans), particularly where changes resulted in lesser services being provided to the student than the Section 504 Plan or IEP in effect prior to the changes?

3. For students with IEPs, was goal progress impacted by remote learning? To make this individualized determination, IEP teams will consider, at minimum:
3a. Present levels of academic achievement and functional performance.
3b. Previous rate of progress toward IEP goals pre-Pandemic Period.
3c. Documented frequency and duration of special education and related services provided to the student prior to the service disruptions caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

B. If a student did not receive the regular or special education and/or related aids/services designed to meet their individual educational needs during the Pandemic Period, the IEP team or Section 504 Plan knowledgeable committee will:

1. Make an individualized determination regarding what compensatory education the student needs to return the student to the position the student would be in if the student received services that met his or her individual needs.  [b][NOTE - This is where FCPS has not been clear AT ALL about what the criteria are.  Interested to learn what staff have been told to guide them.][/b]

2. State the factors considered in determining any compensatory education owed to the student.

3. Develop a plan for providing timely compensatory education. 
3a. The team may consider recovery services already being provided as a factor in determining compensatory education if those recovery services, based on an individualized determination of the student's compensatory education needs, address the specific individualized needs of the student.
3b. When the recovery services already being provided do not address the specific, individualized compensatory education needs of the student, the team cannot directly subtract provided recovery minutes from the total amount of compensatory education the team determines is needed.

The team will include an appropriate and reasonable timeframe for the completion of the agreed-upon compensatory services.

4. Provide the student's parent/guardian notice of the procedural safeguards, including the right to challenge the IEP team or Section 504 Plan knowledgeable committee’s determination through an impartial hearing.

5. Provide the student's parent/guardian notice of the process to follow for requesting reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the parent or guardian to provide services required by the student's IEP or Section 504 Plan by private or non-FCPS personnel that were not provided by FCPS during the Pandemic Period. [/quote]

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