504 Plans. Law: Section 504 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Section 504 ensures that the child with a disability has equal access to an education. The child may receive accommodations and modifications. Unlike the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Section 504 does not require the school to provide an individualized educational program (IEP) that is designed to meet the child's unique needs and provides the child with educational benefit. Under Section 504, fewer procedural safeguards are available to children with disabilities and their parents than under IDEA. • Child Find: Similar to the special education program, a child find process for identifying and potentially referring students for determination of eligibility 504 needs will include: o Special education information in marketing materials, on the school’s web site, and in brochures o Information requested on Transfer of Records request. o Questions asked on home visits. o Examination of records of incoming students. o Parental Request for evaluation. • 504 Plan: A 504 plan will be developed by appropriate and qualified staff that meets the requirements of the law. This plan will assure non-discrimination and full rights to FAPE. Examples of 504 eligibility include those students that narrowly miss qualifying for SPED services, students with injuries, physical handicaps, and others.
504 Plans. Once a local education agency (LEA) determines that a student is entitled to Section 504 protections, this includes the provision of a free appropriate public education. (34 CFR sec. 104.35.) Services, and accommodations are determined through the 504 planning process, and documented in a 504 plan. Henderson County (NC) Pub. Schs., 34 IDELR 43, 44 (OCR 2000) (voluntary resolution agreement reached to develop Section 504 plan providing for a broad range of diabetes-related aids and services, including training staff to monitor blood glucose, count carbohydrates, manage student’s insulin pump, and establish procedures for the provision of appropriate emergency services); Prince Xxxxxx’s County (MD) Schools, 39 IDELR 103, 104 (OCR 2003) (district required to develop a Section 504 Plan tailored to the individual needs of a student with type 1 diabetes). Academic modifications may be necessary whether or not the major life activity of “learning” is affected. A student with diabetes may need to have his/her curriculum adapted in a variety of ways such as changes in physical education instruction, in the regular school day schedule (such as breaks required to test for and treat abnormal blood sugar levels), in additional breaks or other time modifications during tests, and in the regular schedule for eating, drinking and toileting. These accommodations should be documented in the 504 plan. Decisions about what health care services a student will receive, including treatment while at school, such as the timing and dosage of insulin to be administered, usually are based on the treating physician’s written orders. (See Cal. Ed. Code section 49423.) In rare circumstances, the 504 team will question the doctor’s treatment plan as being outside standards of care and will seek a second opinion at school district expense. (See section of this advisory discussing IDEA entitled Related Services as Including Management/Administration of Insulin and Other Diabetes Care Tasks for Children With the Disability of OHI below.)
504 Plans. The Booneville School District does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, age, handicap, national origin or veteran status. The Booneville School District’s Section 504 Coordinator can be reached at the following: 504 Coordinator Xxxx Xxxxxxx 000 X. Xxxxx Xxxxxx PO Box 358 Booneville, MS 38829 000-000-0000 HOME SCHOOLING / TRANSFER STUDENT TESTING All students seeking to transfer from any school, public, private or homeschool within or outside of the boundaries of the State of Mississippi, to a public school within the state may be required to take a test to determine the grade and class to which the pupil shall be assigned at the time of pupil transfer. The administrative head of each public school shall administer the Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx (Version 3) test to such pupil or pupils as shall apply for transfer to such public school. Such test shall be administered within thirty days after the filing of each such application for transfer. Notice of the giving of such test shall be given the applicant not less than five days prior to the date of administration of such test. No transfer of a pupil shall be affected until the test has been given and the pupil is assigned according to the grade and class for which the test shows he is best suited. No pupil shall be assigned to a grade and class more than three (3) grades above or below the grade or class that the pupil would have been assigned to have the pupil remained in the school from which the transfer is being made. Pending the administration of the test herein provided for and its grading and an assignment based thereon the superintendent of the school district or the attendance center principal to which the pupil seeks admission may assign the pupil temporarily to a grade and class comparable to that in which the pupil would have been had the pupil continued in the school from which the transfer was being made. LEGAL REF MS CODE §37-15-33
504 Plans. The Booneville School District does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, age, handicap, national origin or veteran status. The Booneville School District’s Section 504 Coordinator can be reached at the following: 504 Coordinator Xxxx Xxxxxxx 000 X. Xxxxx Xxxxxx PO Box 358 Booneville, MS 38829 000-000-0000 First Semester Progress Report/Report Card Schedule August 25 Progress Reports September 15 Progress Reports October 6-7 1st Nine Weeks Exams
504 Plans. Law: Section 504 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Section 504 ensures that the child with a disability has equal access to an education. The child may receive accommodations and modifications. Unlike the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Section 504 does not require the school to provide an individualized educational program (IEP) that is designed to meet the child's unique needs and provides the child with educational benefit. Under Section 504, fewer procedural safeguards are available to children with disabilities and their parents than under IDEA.
