PreK Contact Meeting

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Pre-K Contact Meeting

• One Goal Conference
• Wednesday, July 19, 2006

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Lets chat about

• Statewide Individual Educational Plan (IEP)
• Speech/language as a related service
• Changes to McKay Scholarship law
• SPP preschool related indicators
• Revised data element-educational environments

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Coming your way soon

• A legislation requires DOE to have an
  electronic IEP in place for statewide use by July
  1, 2007
• Training underway in Phase 1 districts
• Creates a process that includes evaluation,
  eligibility, IEP, placement, etc.
• EP and Service Plan will also be available

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Speech Language

• A revises statute to include speech/language
  (S/L) pathology in related services definition
• S/L as a related service may be provided if a
  student needs this service to benefit from
  special education

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Speech/Language

• Legislative action to create as a related service
  removes OSEP special condition ?
• Speech/Language will continue as a program
• Guidance originally released on May 18th will
  have minor change
• SLP contacts will meet in August

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Speech/Language

• We are delighted to have
• Kimberly Crawford
• kimberly.crawford_at_fldoe.org
• 850/245-0478
• Speech/language consultant and Child Find liaison
  too!

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McKay Scholarship Revisions

• Expands definition of prior year enrollment to
  include 4-year-olds receiving ESE services, FSDB
  students, students in a Department of Juvenile
  Justice commitment program

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McKay Scholarship Revisions

• Scholarships are only available to K-12 students
• Deletes eligibility for students who are
  hospital/homebound only
• Changes terminology (e.g. having a mental
  handicap, changes in specific learning
  disability reference)

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McKay Scholarship

• Ineligible students include those who are
• in a DJJ facility
• receiving a corporate tax credit (CTC)
  scholarship
• in home education or private tutoring
• enrolled in a virtual school, correspondence
  school, or distance learning that receives state
  funding, unless participation limited to no more
  than 2 courses

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McKay Scholarship Revision

• While not explicitly mentioned in (1) of law, a
  child determined to be developmentally delayed,
  who will be in kindergarten, could be eligible
  for a McKay Scholarship, if they were enrolled as
  a prekindergarten ESE student and reported in
  both October and February surveys the year before
  kindergarten.

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McKay Scholarship Revision

• Districts must notify parents
• of the McKay Scholarship Program by April 1st of
  each year and within 10 days after every IEP
  meeting
• if matrix not completed within 10 days of filing
  of intent matrix must be completed within 30
  days of intent
• of availability of reevaluation at least every 3
  years
• sample notice online to be updated

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McKay Scholarship Revision

• Notice will not be required for students who are
  not eligible in K-12 (e.g. H/H only students a
  3-year-old ESE student who will be in Pre-K the
  next year).
• Districts are only authorized to change Matrix
  of Services document for a technical,
  typographical, or calculation error.

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State Performance Plan

• Indicator 6
• 17 districts doing targeted planning activity
• TAP on contracting coming soon
• Draft TAP on assignment/itinerant for field
  review
• Continue policy work, TATS support of priority
  area, state interagency team

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State Performance Plan

• Indicator 7
• Mining existing data from subset of Early
  Adopters
• RFA proposed to support this work
• Early Steps State Office committing resources
• Once all the ducks in a row will begin training
  and new data collection process with Early
  Adopters

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State Performance Plan

• Indicator 8
• Deadline was 6-30 for submission for parent
  surveys
• Data being analyzed

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Data ElementEducational Environments

• Office of Special Education Programs has changed
  data reporting for preschool environments
• Previous categories of early childhood,
  part-time/part-time, and early childhood special
  education have changed
• Will obtain this data from October survey
  December count has been eliminated as of 2006-07

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Data ElementEducational Environments

• Reporting to the OSEP will reflect
• of children in an early childhood program 80
  of time or more, 40 - 79, less than 40
• of children in separate class, separate school,
  residential
• of children served in home or service provider
  location

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Data ElementEducational Environments

• Use Early Childhood Program K when
• Child receives special education in a blended
  classroom and at least 50 of the children are
  nondisabled
• District sends itinerant staff to child care
  center, Head Start, VPK sites and ESE services
  offered at that site

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Data Element Educational Environment

• Use Early Childhood Program (K) when
• Child is in a reverse mainstreaming class and at
  least 50 of class is nondisabled
• Child comes to an elementary school for speech
  therapy (drop-in) and district knows that the
  child spends remainder of the day in child care,
  Head Start, VPK
• Child spends ½ day in an ESE prek class and then
  attends child care center for remainder of day

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Data ElementEducational Environment

• Time, Total School Week
• total scheduled minutes per week
• in cases where district knows the child is in
  day care but doesnt know exact scheduled time,
  use normal elementary school day (bell-to-bell)

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Data ElementEducational Environment

• Time with nondisabled peers
• The total amount of time that a student with a
  disability is with non-disabled peers.

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Data ElementEducational Environment

• Use Special Education Program L when
• Child is in a blended program for the entire
  day but fewer than 50 of the children are
  nondisabled
• Reverse mainstreaming proportion of nondisabled
  children is below the 50 threshold child is in
  program for entire day
• Child is in a self-contained ESE class for the
  entire school day

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Data ElementEducational Environment

• Use Special Education Program in a Separate
  School S when
• When the prek class is in a public or private
  special day school

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Data ElementEducational Environment

• Use Special Education Program in a Residential
  Facility B when
• Child is served in a residential facility or a
  residential medical facility on an inpatient
  basis

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Data ElementEducational Environment

• Use Home A when
• Child receives services in the home only
• Child receives services in the home and at a
  service provider (e.g. receives home-based
  intervention and comes to elementary school for
  an hour a week of drop in speech therapy)

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Data ElementEducational Environments

• Use service provider J when
• Child receives drop-in services at an
  elementary school and is not in an early
  childhood program this is only service child
  receives
• Child receives services funded by district from a
  service providerthis is only service child
  receives

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More ?s

• Cathy Bishop
• Cathy.bishop_at_fldoe.org
• 850.245-0478
• Carole West
• Carole.west_at_fldoe.org
• 850/245-0478