Most schools chose to write a 504 plan as it is an effective way to document their compliance with the law. IDEA requires public schools to develop IEPs for eligible students, but Section 504 does has no similar requirement regarding 504 plans (for public or private schools). Private schools, on the other hand, are required to provide students with access and “reasonable” accommodations – similar to what the ADA requires. Section 504 requires public schools to provide eligible students with disabilities with a free appropriate public education. But private schools are not required to meet the same standards as public schools. Section 504 DOES apply to any private school that receives federal funding, including direct Title I funds. Wouldn’t the private school be required to provide transition services to all students? Wouldn’t transition services for students with disabilities necessitate the SSD be involved intimately with the DE program?Ĭan the school legally cut out the SSD and leave my child with no support for a program? Especially for a transitional services program? Is this true?Īlso, DE programs are part of “transition services”. I was under the impression that even private schools are required to provide assistance in order for students with disabilities to have the opportunity to participate in the same programs as typical students. If the DEC is resisting communicating with the SSD, then there is no way for my child to get the assistance they need. So students with disabilities do not have the opportunity to be advised nor assisted properly because they would need someone familiar with their disability to do that – someone from the Support Services Dept. However, the DEC herself is not qualified to provide assistance and advice to students with disabilities. Meanwhile, the DEC is providing assistance and advice for the DE program to typical students. The DEC has repeatedly stated that they are under no obligation to communicate with SSD at all. The DEC has repeatedly stated that the SSD does not need to be involved in the DE program. The DEC has repeatedly failed to communicate relevant information to the Support Services Dept (SSD) at their own high school. The DE Coordinator (DEC) at the high school keeps telling us that it is the student’s responsibility to apply for college accommodations and that the high school is under no obligation to help. And because the DE program is a high school program college students are not eligible. We were under the impression that the high school would use the 504 Plan currently on file with the high school to define accommodations for the DE course, the reason being, is because the DE class was taught on the high school campus, by a high school teacher (employed by the high school), on the high school schedule. She started a DE class in August without any support and without any accommodations because no one ever told us that the current 504 plan on file with the high school would not apply to the college class. I have a student at a private school who is in a dual enrollment (DE) program this year.
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