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 ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

State Board of Education

RULE NOS.:RULE TITLES:

6A-6.030121Exceptional Student Education Eligibility for Students with Language Impairments and Qualifications and Responsibilities for the Speech-Language Pathologists Providing Language Services.

6A-6.03018Exceptional Education Eligibility for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities

6A-6.030191Development of Educational Plans for Exceptional Students Who Are Gifted

6A-6.03028Provision of Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) and Development of Individual Educational Plans for Students with Disabilities

6A-6.03313Procedural Safeguards for Exceptional Students Who Are Gifted

6A-6.0334Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) and Educational Plans (EPs) for Transferring Exceptional Students

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: Rule 6A-6.030121, F.A.C., the purpose is to update references. Rule 6A-6.03018, F.A.C., the purpose is to update references and deletes obsolete language. Rule 6A-6.03028, F.A.C., 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. Rule 6A-6.03313, F.A.C., 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, F.A.C. apply. Rule 6A-6.030191, F.A.C., 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. Rule 6A-6.0334, F.A.C., 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 AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: 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 FS.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 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 FS.

A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:

DATE AND TIME: September 30, 2015, 3:00 p.m.

PLACE: Via telephone conference call: 1(877)280-4957; participant pass code: 28948926; participants may access a presentation by linking to http://tlc-flmtss.adobeconnect.com/auditorium/. For anyone wishing to attend in person: Department of Education, 325 West Gaines Street, Room 605, Tallahassee, FL 32399

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Monica Verra-Tirado, Ed.D., Chief, Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services, 325 West Gaines Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400, [phone]. To submit a comment on this rule development go to: https://app1.fldoe.org/rules/default.aspx

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS: Available at https://app1.fldoe.org/rules/default.aspx.