Supplemental Instruction

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Supplemental Instruction
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Supplemental Instruction

• Sponsors may request funding for certain
  additional expenses, in writing and PRIOR to
  costs being incurred, for
• Special Education and Related Expenses Required
  by Childs Individual Education Plan (IEP)
• Extracurricular Instruction in a Foreign Language
• Supplemental Instruction/Tutoring for Remedial or
  Basic Skills
• Gifted Education Courses/Programs
• Reasonable and Economical Public or Private
  Commuter Transportation (other than that provided
  by the school or embassy)

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Supplemental Instruction Cap

• IAW DSSR 274.12a, an allowance in addition to the
  at post education allowance may be authorized
  for supplemental instruction up to, but not
  exceeding, 3,000 per student, per school year
• Allowance may be authorized to all eligible
  students regardless of attendance to a school at
  post, away from post or home-based educational
  program or special needs student, as long as
  eligibility criteria is met and supporting
  documentation of need is established.

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Supplemental Instruction (Contd)

• Request for supplemental instruction should be
  approved by the NDSP Program Manager PRIOR to
  incurring any costs or services.
• If services are received before approval from the
  NDSP Program Manager, the sponsor may be
  responsible for any costs incurred.
• If, for any reason, the NDSP Program Manager
  disapproves funding for supplemental instruction,
  this does not preclude the sponsor from procuring
  services for their child at their own expense.

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Core Subject/Basic Skills

• Funding for supplemental instruction would be
  approved in cases where the at post school
• Does not provide instruction in academic subjects
  generally offered by public schools in the U.S.
  or to complete courses started in the U.S. but
  not completed prior to arriving in foreign
  location
• Offers its curriculum in a foreign language which
  the child does not know well enough for progress
  in the curriculum (ESL), or
• Requires additional instruction to enable the
  child to enter a grade or remain in the same
  grade in the school

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Core Subject/Basic Skills (contd)

• Request for supplemental instruction should at a
  minimum include the following
• Letter from school administrator indicating need,
  recommended length of supplemental instruction,
  and expected outcome
• Recommendations for each session, duration and
  frequency (number of days and hours per week, and
  number of weeks)
• Request for supplemental instruction in core
  curriculum areas should also include the
  following
• Letter from school administrator should indicate
  that if the course/subject requiring supplemental
  instruction is failed, the student would not pass
  the class, therefore would not proceed to the
  next grade
• Progress reports (grades) showing failure/in
  jeopardy of failure of course/subject requiring
  supplemental instruction

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Core Subject/Basic Skills (contd)

• Supplemental instruction will be approved in
  nine-week increments, unless otherwise stipulated
  in writing from the NDSP Program Manager.
• Progress reports will be required to determine if
  tutoring is beneficial and improving students
  grades and/or to determine if type, frequency and
  duration of support needs to be modified.

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Special Education and Related Services Required
by Childs IEP

• Most services required by a student with special
  needs will be covered under the Special Education
  Allowance cap (26,800) however, in cases where
  additional services are needed and funding is not
  available under the cap, an additional 3,000 can
  be authorized for supplemental services for
  students with special needs on a case-by-case
  basis.
• Some students with special needs may not be
  eligible for special needs funding, however, if
  services are required and deemed necessary, the
  supplemental instruction allowance may be granted
  to such students for continuity of needed
  services.

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Extracurricular Instruction in a Foreign Language

• Supplemental instruction in support of a foreign
  language may be authorized under the supplemental
  instruction cap when
• such study began in the U.S. and the DoDEA
  approving authority considers it essential to
  maintain foreign language proficiency, or
• the language is the language of the host nation

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Reasonable and Economical Public or Private
Commuter Transportation

• In certain extenuating circumstances (usually
  where personal security of the child in
  jeopardy), alternative public or private commuter
  transportation may be authorized on a
  case-by-case basis.
• Request must indicate the circumstances of the
  request and any incidents which would be used to
  justify such authorization
• Local commander must endorse request and verify
  that such risk exists and supports the use of
  alternative transportation

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Gifted Education Courses

• Students may qualify under the DoDEA criteria for
  supplemental instruction or materials for gifted
  education by submitting documentation from the
  previous public of private schools gifted
  education program or the current public or
  private schools assessment.
• Parents must submit evidence to support requests
  for assessments.

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