How do we handle a student assigned to a juvenile detention center who is also a special education student?
A juvenile detention center can have a student assigned to the center as a special education student by the courts. The student could receive special education services, the center could claim FTE and there not be an IEP, IEP date, or MET date. In short, if the school code indicates that the school is a juvenile detention center, special education FTE can be claimed without any additional special education information reported (except Field #29). As a general rule, the detention center has 30 days in which to develop an IEP but many times the students are not there 30 days. In some cases, the juvenile detention center uses the court date as the IEP and MET date.
