16437928, 6A-6.030121 - Florida Administrative Rules, Law, Code, Register

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Notice: 16437928

Notice of Development of Rulemaking

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Division:

State Board of Education

Chapter:

SPECIAL PROGRAMS I

Overview

RULE:

6A-6.030121	Exceptional Student Education Eligibility for Students with Language Impairments and Qualifications and Responsibilities for the Speech-Language Pathologists Providing Language Services.
6A-6.03018	Exceptional Education Eligibility for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
6A-6.030191	Development of Educational Plans for Exceptional Students Who Are Gifted
6A-6.03028	Provision of Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) and Development of Individual Educational Plans for Students with Disabilities
6A-6.03313	Procedural Safeguards for Exceptional Students Who Are Gifted
6A-6.0334	Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) and Educational Plans (EPs) for Transferring Exceptional Students

PURPOSE:

6A-6.030121, The purpose is to update references. 6A-6.03018, The purpose is to update references and deletes obsolete language. 6A-6.03028, The purpose is to include revised IEP content and IEP team membership when a student is a student with a disability and is also identified as gifted. The proposed change adds factors that an IEP team must consider when addressing a student’s need for extended school year services. 6A-6.03313, The purpose is to include a statement that for students who are identified as gifted and as having a disability, the procedural safeguards of Rule 6A-6.03311 apply. 6A-6.030191, The purpose is to clarify that Educational Plans are for those students who are “solely gifted” and the needs of students who are “twice exceptional” must be addressed in an IEP. 6A-6.0334, The purpose is to  establish requirements with regard to the convening of an IEP team meeting when a student is not considered appropriate for a full-time virtual program. The proposed rule makes provision for use of a gifted plan or corresponding documentation from an out-of-state district, when a student who has been determined to be gifted in another state moves to Florida.

SUBJECT:

Factors that an IEP team must consider when addressing a student’s need for extended school year services, clarifying language regarding student that are gifted, updating rule references.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

1001.02(1), (2)(n), 1001.42(4)(1), 1003.01(3)(a), (b), 1003.4282, 1003.55, 1003.57(5), 1003.571, 1003.5715, 1006.09, 1008.22, 1012.44, F.S.

LAW:

1000.01, 1001.02(2)(n), 1001.03(8), 1001.42(4)(l), 1002.33, 1003.01(3)(a), (b), (8), 1003.4203, 1003.4282, 1003.55, 1003.57(5), 1003.571, 1003.5715, 1003.5716, 1008.22, 1011.62(1)(c), 1012.44, F.S.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

9/4/2015 Vol. 41/173

RELATED STATUTES
AND LAWS:

1001.02(1), (2)(n), 1001.42(4)(1), 1003.01(3)(a), (b), 1003.4282, 1003.55, 1003.57(5), 1003.571, 1003.5715, 1006.09, 1008.22, 1012.44, F.S., 1000.01, 1001.02(2)(n), 1001.03(8), 1001.42(4)(l), 1002.33, 1003.01(3)(a), (b), (8), 1003.4203, 1003.4282, 1003.55, 1003.57(5), 1003.571, 1003.5715, 1003.5716, 1008.22, 1011.62(1)(c), 1012.44, F.S.

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:

Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
Florida Administrative Law Central Online Network (F.A.L.C.O.N.)

RELATED COURT CASES:

Division of Administrative Hearings

FEDERAL eRULEMAKING
WEB PORTAL:

Regulations.gov

HOW TO LINK TO
THIS NOTICE:

http://flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=6A-6.030121&PDate=9/4/2015&Section=1

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

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