Re: Off-topic: Special needs services - federal law

[aburke5054@aol.com]

The following relates to IDEA services for children in private schools. 
...

http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/%2Croot%2Cdynamic%2CTopicalArea%2C5%2C

Note that statute requires states to make a free and appropriate public 
education available to children enrolled in private schools.  It does 
not require the state to provide special education services in private 
schools. I suspect the same is true for home schooled kids - that the 
statute requires states to make FAPE available to homeschooled kids 
with special needs, but it does not require states to provide services 
to students in their homes.

Art

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From: ElsaHaas <ElsaHaas@si.rr.com>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 6:26 pm
Subject: [arn-l] Off-topic: Special needs services - federal law


This is off-topic. Could someone give me a reference to the section/s in
current federal law that say that the relevant state/locality must 
provide
special education services to private school students?


I'm asking this because here in NYS, a possible change in policy by the
Regents (who decide on State Education Department matters) would seem to
eliminate special services for homeschooled students on the grounds that
"homeschooling" isn't "private school" (at least, in NYS, it isn't
considered to be - in some other states homeschool parents simply 
designate
their homes as private schools, but here we have separate regulations
specifically for homeschooling).



Please excuse my asking this question on this list - it seems like 
someone
here might be able to help me with this.



Thanks,

Elsa Haas

PAHSI (Partnership for Accurate Homeschooling Information)

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