What options may a PSA use to meet its responsibilities to provide a student with a disability with a free appropriate public education as required by state and federal law?
Special education includes all programs and services as defined in Rule 340.170lb(e) of the Revised Administrative Rules for Special Education. Accordingly, a PSA may use any of the methods below to provide a student with a disability with appropriate special education programs as determined by an individualized educational planning committee. a. Directly employ appropriately qualified personnel to meet the individualized education programs of their students with disabilities. b. Contract with another local or intermediate school district. There are special provisions in the Revised School code for a PSA to contract with an immediately adjacent public school in states bordering Michigan. c. Contract with the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind, the Michigan Department of Community Health, or the Michigan Family Independence Agency. d. By Attorney General Opinion No. 6915 (1996), “A public school academy is not subject to Section 1231 of the Revised School Code which requires the bo
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