Local Education Agency. (LEA) means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within the State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of the State, or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized in the State as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.
Local Education Agency. The Local Education Agency agrees to:
Local Education Agency. (LEA) The Sponsor, as LEA, is responsible for eligibility determination for ESE programs. The School Director/Principal or his designee will be the LEA at each IEP review/development meeting. These meetings shall be coordinated among the Sponsor’s LEA designee or ESE representative, School personnel (LEA), the student’s parents or guardians, and the student, when appropriate. The School may obtain independent evaluations of students at their expense. These evaluations may be considered in determining eligibility but will not necessarily substitute for an evaluation conducted by district personnel in a manner and timeframe consistent with that of all other schools in the district.
Local Education Agency. The LEA is the payor of last resort for eligible infants and toddlers with solely Low Incidence disabilities in accordance with Section 95008 of the California Early Intervention Services Act and Title 17 CCR, Section 52110(a).
Local Education Agency. School District Responsibilities
Local Education Agency. Individualized Education Program (IEP) – Required by IDEA and used for individual student planning for student with disabilities. The IEP is developed by a team of people such as parents, teachers and related service providers. The IEP describes the direction a student with special needs will be going in the future and how to get there. Individualized Education Program (IEP) The IEP will be developed in collaboration with the IEP team, the parents, teacher, student, and others as requested. When a purpose of the IEP meeting is the consideration of transition services for a student, the LEA shall invite the student and, to the extent appropriate and with the consent of the parent or adult student, a representative of any other agency that is likely to be responsible for providing or paying for the transition services. Individual Transition Plan (ITP) –The ITP is the template for mapping out long-term adult outcomes from which annual goals and objectives are defined. The ITP must be based on the student’s needs, preferences and interests and reflect the student’s own goals. Objectives, timelines, and people responsible for meeting the objectives should be written into the ITP as part of the IEP. It is important to understand that transition planning and development of the ITP are part of the IEP process. The ITP must be in place by the time the student turns 16 years of age. If the ITP team agrees transition planning can begin prior to the age of 16.
Local Education Agency. The LEA (SBCSELPA) will be the payor of last resort for those infants or toddlers with solely low incidence visual, hearing, or severe orthopedic impairment, or any combination thereof, who meet the criteria in Sections 56026 and 56026.5 of the Education Code, and in subdivisions (a), (b), (d) or (e) of Section 3030, and Section 3031 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations.
