How do I get students to qualify as legally blind and receive Federal Quota Funds?
Students are registered for the census based on being enrolled in the agencies program on the first Monday in January of each year. Each year registration packets are distributed statewide to register new students, update information on continuing students, or cross off students who are no longer with their program, or do not qualify. The registration requires that an ophthalmologist validate visual acuity every three years as 20/200 or less in the better eye with best correction or a peripheral field of vision no greater than 20 degrees. The registering agency must be a formally organized public or private nonprofit educational program with students working at less than college level. APH then certifies the number of qualifying students in each state and allocates, through the states Department of Education, the amount per student that was approved by the Federal Congress.
