May school districts provide special education or related services to private school children at private schools?
Decisions about where services will be provided are left to school districts, in consultation with private school representatives and representatives of parents of private school children. School districts may provide the services at private schools to the extent consistent with law, but they are not required to do so. The department encourages school districts to provide services at private schools to the extent that it is practical, so as not to disrupt the educational program of the children receiving the services. • Are there precautions a school district must observe when providing special education services to religious school children? Yes. The school district’s services must be secular, neutral, and non-ideological. The services may not supplant the private school’s instruction in the core curriculum areas of reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, and health. The safeguards found in the IDEA regulations at 34 CFR 300.143 (Separate classes prohibited), and
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