Should a district return a student to their home school if they have attended a different school in the district for multiple years?
The law states that “unless the IEP requires some other arrangement, children are educated in the school she or he would attend if they did not have a disability.” This applies to students with any disability, including students with an intellectual disability. This is a decision that is made on an individual student basis by the PPT. A PPT may decide that certain students should remain in out-of-district programs if they are close to finishing their educational career, and have been educated in that setting for a long time. Though it remains the goal for all students, including students with an intellectual disability, to attend their home school, there are times when it may be appropriate for a student to be educated in another setting. For example, some teams, based on the need for continuity for an individual student, have determined that a student should spend one more year in a nonhome school, and transition the following year, due to the timing of a natural transition (i.e., tra
