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* 1. Your name:

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* 2. Your title/position: 

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* 3. Your school’s name:

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* 4. Your school's address (street, city/town, zip-code):

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* 5. In which public school district ("Local Education Agency"/LEA) is your school located?

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* 6. How many total students are enrolled in your school?

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides special education and related services to students with disabilities.

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* 7. How many of your students have IEPs or service plans from the LEA?

This number could be different from your response to Question 8, due to families rejecting services and/or the district not providing services to students found eligible.

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* 8. How many of your students, in total, have been identified by the public school district as eligible for special education and/or related services? If you do not know the answer to this question, then write in the space provided, "I do not know."

Please note that this number should be inclusive of those students receiving speech services but should not include students with 504 plans, or school-based modification/accommodation plans.

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* 9. How many students have a private evaluation but do not have an IEP or a 504 plan?

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* 10. How many students have 504 plans? 

Please note that this number should not include students with any other accommodation plans.

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* 11. Of the total number of students who have been identified as eligible for special education and/or related services, how many of them reside within the LEA in which your school is located?

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* 12. Of the total number of students who have been identified as eligible for special education and/or related services, how many of them reside outside the LEA in which your school is located?

Child-find:

The IDEA law includes comprehensive guidelines on how private school students’ allocations and services should be determined. Among these guidelines are specific directives on how LEAs are to collaborate with private schools in making and finalizing those determinations. Chief among these means of determination is a process that the law calls “child-find.” Each LEA is obligated to inform private school parents that if parents suspect that their children have a learning disability, then LEA-provided testing for those children is available. Testing by the LEA in which a private school is located is available to both that school’s students who reside within the LEA and those students who reside outside that LEA.

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* 13. Does your LEA inform you about the child find process and the availability of evaluations for private school students and work with you to develop a plan to ensure that the opportunity is known within your school community?

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* 14. Does your LEA conduct child-find evaluations within the statutory timeline? (50 School Days after the LEA receives written consent (http://www.bcnwhjs.org/parents/procedural-safeguards/file))

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* 15. Please rate the difficulty that your families and school personnel encounter when seeking evaluations from a scale of 1-10.

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* 16. What percentage of your school’s students that have gone through the LEA’s
identification process have been found eligible for special education and/or related services?

Individual Services Plan:

To each student who will be provided IDEA-funded services, IDEA requires LEAs to provide an Individual Services Plan (ISP). The ISP details the specific service(s) that the LEA will provide to that student.

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* 17. Does your LEA develop ISPs for eligible students?

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* 18. Does the LEA include you and/or a private school representative in service plan meetings?

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* 19. How often on average in any given year have you engaged in IDEA-related consultation with your LEA?

Consultation:

According to IDEA, throughout each school year LEAs must engage in “consultation” with all of the private schools which are located within them. This process involves “timely and meaningful” meetings between private school officials, private school parents, and LEA officials. These consultation meetings determine which students will be served and, also, how, where, and by whom special education and related services will be provided. This consultation focuses specifically on IDEA and is not to be confused with consultation meetings pertaining to Title I, IIA, III, and IV.

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* 20. During the consultation meetings that you have had with your LEA’s officials, has your LEA provided confirmation of the number of your school’s students who, residing within your LEA, have been tested and identified through the child-find process as having a disability?

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* 21. During the consultation meetings that you have had with your LEA’s officials, has your LEA provided confirmation of the number of your school’s students who, residing outside your LEA, have been tested and identified through the child-find process as having a disability?

Proportionate Share & APC Funding:

Under federal law, private school students who qualify for special education services in any given LEA attain, collectively, a “proportionate share” of the total IDEA funds that the federal government has to that particular LEA allocated. Under federal law, no student has an individual entitlement to services and this means that some students may not receive services. However, in Indiana, state law requires LEAs to offer services to all parentally-placed private school students with disabilities attending private school within their boundaries. The LEA may cover the cost of these services using the federal proportionate share dollars or state funding (APC), or a combination of both.

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* 22. Does your LEA convey to you the IDEA proportionate share, the dollar amount of the federal IDEA grant that is available to your school and how it is calculated?

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* 23. Does your LEA convey to you the state APC funding available to your students and how it was calculated?

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* 24. Does your LEA engage in consultation with you regarding the two funding streams (federal proportionate share and state APC funding) and solicit your input regarding how to spend each of these funds in the most impactful way for your students?

Timely and Meaningful Consultation:

The LEA must engage in timely and meaningful consultation with private school officials before any decisions which may impact the services provided are made. During the consultation process that occurs between LEA officials and private school officials, the questions of where, how, by whom and to whom special education and related services will be provided are, as mandated by the law, supposed to be answered. When consultation is timely, meetings are scheduled to ensure that all topics are adequately and proactively addressed before any decisions are reached. When consultation is meaningful all parties have a genuine opportunity to share their points of view and to have them fully considered.

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* 25. Has your LEA engaged in active, collaborative, timely and meaningful consultation about which services will be provided?

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* 26. Does your LEA have a blanket-rule about the services that it will/will not provide each year prior to consultation? (For example, has your LEA ever told you at the beginning of consultation, "This year, we will only be providing to your students speech services."?)

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* 27. How were students in your school counted for the purpose of generating federal proportionate share allocation(s)?

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* 28. Has your LEA engaged in active, collaborative, timely and meaningful consultation about where those services will be provided?

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* 29. Has your LEA engaged in active, collaborative, timely and meaningful consultation about which students will receive services?

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* 30. Has your LEA engaged in active, collaborative, timely and meaningful consultation about how/by whom those services will be provided?

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* 31. Where are special education services delivered? Please select all that apply:

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* 32. Please indicate the kind of special education services that have been provided to your students/educators (select all that apply).

Indiana Special Education Choice Scholarship Program:

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* 33. How many students in your school are participating in the Special Education Component of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program?

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* 34. How many families have designated your school as the service provider under the Indiana Special Education Choice Program?

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* 35. If your school is the designated service provider for the Indiana Special Education Choice Program, what services do you provide to these students?

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* 36. Are students that are participating in the special education choice scholarship program receiving services from your school, the LEA or from both?

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* 37. Do all other students at your school who are eligible for special education, but who do not participate in the special education choice scholarship program, receive special education services from the LEA (including consultation services)?

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* 38. To the extent eligible students are not receiving services, please list the reason:

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* 39. Please provide any additional information regarding your experiences with obtaining IDEA funded services for your students that you believe it would be helpful for ADAC to know.

If you have any questions, then please feel free to contact Tom Olson, Steve Perla, or Ariella Hellman toll-free at 1-833-ADAC123 or send them an email. Their email addresses as well as information about ADAC can be found on ADAC's website at www.theadac.com. 
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