From Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us  Tue Apr  6 11:42:09 2010
From: Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us (ALLRAN Laura)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:42:09 -0700
Subject: [esd-dir] OSL&P: IDEA Part B Section 611 Base Grant Award Estimates
Message-ID: <C6CB341AA8C9864D8EC69C75D20FD1CB29B0ABF25B@ode-mail>

TO:  All District and ESD Special Education Directors

The message below is being forwarded to you on behalf of:


Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
____________________________________________
April 6, 2010

RE:  IDEA Part B Section 611 Base Grant Award Estimates for 2010-2011

Please find attached a spreadsheet that estimates your total IDEA Part B Section 611 Base Grant Award for 2010-2011.  Included in the spreadsheet are the net estimated first and second payments to your district, the proportionate share of IDEA funds that must be allocated to serve parentally placed private school students and the estimated 15% for Coordinated Early Intervening Services, where applicable to your district.

Please note that the estimates are based on figures taken from the United States Department of Education budget tables, most recently updated on March 10, 2010.  We are not able to provide you with final award amounts until March of 2011 after new data is provided to our office to run the final formula.  Traditionally, our estimates have very closely approximated the final award amount.

It is important to note that there are no new ARRA IDEA Part B Section 611 funds allocated for 2010-2011.

Another useful resource is our Special Education Finance Q and A.  We completed an update of this resource in March to include a
13-page chart of allowable and non-allowable uses of your IDEA funds (pages 27-40).  This document can be helpful for IDEA budget and expenditure planning, and is accessible though this link: Special Education Financing Q & A<http://www.ode.state.or.us/data/schoolanddistrict/funding/sped/fundingqa.doc>

We hope that this information will be helpful to you as you prepare for the 2010-2011 school year.  If you have questions about the spreadsheet or Special Education Financing Q and A, please contact Eric Richards at eric.richards at state.or.us<mailto:eric.richards at state.or.us> or you may call him at 503-947-5786.

If you have any difficulty opening the attached document, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us> or 503-947-5674.

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From Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us  Wed Apr  7 15:05:56 2010
From: Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us (ALLRAN Laura)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:05:56 -0700
Subject: [esd-dir] OSL&P: Revised ODE Guidance: LTCT Facilities Children
 Placed by Parents
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TO:       All District and ESD Special Education Directors

The message below is being forwarded to you on behalf of:


Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
______________________________________________
April 7, 2010

This went out to all superintendents this afternoon and I wanted to be sure you saw a copy.

Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships

RE:  REVISED ODE GUIDANCE: Long Term Care and Treatment Facilities Children Placed by Parents

The Oregon Department of Education (Department) has recently become aware of issues related to the way public education is made available to children who are placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs) by their parents or guardians.  After reviewing the applicable state and federal laws and considering Departmental policy relating to the provision of public education to students in PRTFs within Oregon, the Department has decided to issue revised guidance concerning the responsibility of Oregon school districts to provide public education to resident children placed in PRTFs by their parents.

Prior Department Guidance Regarding Children Placed in PRTFs by Parents

The Department has not previously issued guidance to school districts concerning this issue.  However, the Department has issued guidance to local educational agencies in the State that provide educational services to Long-Term Care and Treatment (LTCT) students that included information about children placed in PRTFs by their parents.

LTCT students are children placed in PRTFs by State agencies such as the Oregon Department of Human Services or the Oregon Youth Authority.  LTCT students are provided a public education by local educational agencies that contract with the Department to provide educational services at specific PRTFs throughout the State.  In a 2008 memo to these contract service providers, the Department discussed the provision of public education to children placed by their parents in PRTFs serviced by the providers.

The memo suggested to the service providers that they inform the parents of parentally-placed PRTF children of the option to enroll their children in the district in which the PRTF is located as out-of-district, tuition students.  Though the 2008 memo did not explicitly state that children placed by their parents in PRTFs were not entitled to a public education in Oregon, it implied that the parents of such children had opted out of public education in the State.  The Department's recent review has caused us to revise this guidance.

Revised Department Guidance

Under Oregon law, children in PRTFs are residents of the school district in which their parents or persons in a parental relationship to the child reside.  Therefore, it is the responsibility of the district in which a parentally-placed PRTF child's parents reside to provide a public education to such children.

In practice, this means that the child's resident district is often different than the district in which the PRTF is located.  For example, a child whose parents reside in District A but is placed in a PRTF located in District B remains a resident of District A for the purposes of Oregon school residency.  In this situation, it is the responsibility of District A under Oregon law to provide a public education to the child regardless of the physical distance separating Districts A and B.

As discussed above, prior Department guidance implied that, in situations where a parent places a child in a PRTF outside of their resident district, the resident district no longer had an obligation to provide a public education to the child.  However, the language of the Oregon school residency statute, read in conjunction with the anti-discrimination provisions of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, does not allow Oregon school districts to exclude children from public education as a result of a parental decision to place a child in a residential treatment facility for psychiatric/medical purposes.  Therefore, the Department advises school districts to make a public education available to resident children placed by their parents in PRTFs regardless of where the PRTF is located.

Interim Solution

The Department recognizes the difficulty of providing educational services to students who are not physically present within school district boundaries.  In order to lessen the burden of providing public education to students in PRTFs, the Department is implementing the following procedures with regard to children placed in PRTFs by their parents:


*         Department contractors who are currently responsible for providing public education to LTCT students will immediately notify children's resident school districts when Oregon children are placed by their parents in PRTFs covered by an LTCT contract.

*         LTCT contractors will provide educational services to all children placed in the facilities that are served pursuant to Department contracts.

*         The resident district will consider the child enrolled in the district for purposes of accounting and distribution of state school funds.  Districts will be able to report those students on their ADM count upon notification from the LTCT contractor.

*         The resident district will enter into an agreement with the Department's contracted LTCT educational service provider to provide services to the parentally-placed child at the PRTF.

This arrangement is intended to be an interim solution to the problem of providing public education to children who are physically removed from their resident school district for the purpose of receiving psychiatric/medical care.  This solution will ensure that all children in LTCT facilities, regardless of how they were placed in the facility, will receive a public education from the current LTCT contractors and that the children's resident districts will forward the appropriate state school funds to the contractors.  The Department will instruct LTCT contractors to begin educating children placed in covered PRTFs by their parents on or before April 15, 2010.  These provisions apply to students parentally-placed in residential programs and to those placed in day treatment.

The Department is currently working with the Oregon State Legislature and a group of stakeholders to identify and implement a permanent solution that reduces the burden on Oregon school districts while still providing public education to all eligible children in the State.

If you have any difficulty viewing this document, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us>  or 503-947-5674.

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From Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us  Thu Apr 15 14:59:01 2010
From: Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us (ALLRAN Laura)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:59:01 -0700
Subject: [esd-dir] OSL&P: RTI Application is Posted
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TO:       All District and ESD Special Education Directors

The message below is being sent to you on behalf of:


Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
______________________________________________
April 15, 2010

RE:      Applications for RTI Model Development and Support is Now Open and Posted.  Submission Deadline: May 15, 2010

Oregon's Response to Intervention (RTI) initiative applications are now posted at http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=2502.

In 2010-2011, Oregon is proud to be able to support 10 new districts interested in implementing and supporting an RTI model of decision making.

Applications will be accepted until May 15th 2010. For questions around completing this application, please contact Dianna Carrizales at dianna.carrizales at state.or.us<mailto:dianna.carrizales at state.or.us>.

If you have any difficulty opening the above links, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us>  or 503-947-5674.

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From Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us  Mon Apr 19 15:55:44 2010
From: Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us (ALLRAN Laura)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:55:44 -0700
Subject: [esd-dir] OSL&P: Alternate Assessment Opportunities
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TO:  All District and ESD Special Education Directors

The message below is being forwarded to you on behalf of:


Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
______________________________________________
April 19, 2010

RE:  Alternate Assessment Opportunities: Recruitment Notice

ODE (Office of Student Learning and Partnerships) is currently in the process of contacting Qualified Assessors and Qualified Trainers of the Extended Assessment in an effort to recruit panel members for two upcoming opportunities in support of our Extended Assessment development efforts:

1.       Math Extended Assessment Standard Setting Panel scheduled for:

*       Monday, August 16, 2010 (and Tuesday, August 17, if needed), 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
*       Public Services Bldg, Basement A, Salem, Oregon

2.      Science Extended Assessment Item Review Panel scheduled for:

*       Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
*       Public Services Bldg, Basement A, Salem, Oregon

We hope to enlist the participation of informed and knowledgeable panel members for this important process. If you know of any interested educators, please ask them to complete an application (see below link) and submit by mail no later than Thursday, July 1, 2010 to:

Brad Lenhardt
Attn: Math Alternate Assessment Standard Setting Panel
255 Capitol St. NE
Salem, OR 97310

Or fax the application to (503) 378-5156, Attn: Barbara Conreaux (Alternate Standard Setting)

Panel members should be knowledgeable about Extended Assessments and some preference will be given to applicants who (a) have administered the Extended Assessment in either 2008 or 2009 and/or (b) have grade-level content and assessment experience.  Panel members will be selected from special education teachers, content teachers, parents, special education directors, and community representatives.

This information and the application form are posted at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=178

For additional questions, please contact Brad Lenhardt at (503)947-5755 or Brad.Lenhardt at state.or.us<mailto:Brad.Lenhardt at state.or.us> or Dianna Carrizales at (503) 947-5634 or Dianna.Carrizales at state.or.us<mailto:Dianna.Carrizales at state.or.us>.

If you have any difficulty viewing the above link, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us> or 503-947-5674.

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From Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us  Wed Apr 21 13:02:19 2010
From: Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us (ALLRAN Laura)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:02:19 -0700
Subject: [esd-dir] OSL&P: Division 37 OAR Update
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TO:  All District and ESD Special Education Directors

The message below is being sent to you on behalf of:


Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
______________________________________________
April 21, 2010

RE:  Division 37 OAR Update - Instructional Assistance

Attached you will find a copy of the draft Division 37 Revisions that will be posted for public comment on May 1, 2010.

Please review the document and encourage colleagues to respond during the public comment period.  The notice of hearing and request for comment will appear on the ODE OAR Revision website at http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=2841.

Timeline:
May 1, 2010        Posting of revisions to Division 37 OARs for public comment
May 20, 2010      SBE 1st read
May 26, 2010      Rule hearing & comments due
June 24, 2010     SBE 2nd read and adoption

If you have any difficulty opening the attached document, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us> or 503-947-5674.

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From Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us  Mon Apr 26 13:18:03 2010
From: Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us (ALLRAN Laura)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:18:03 -0700
Subject: [esd-dir] OSL&P:  May 7, 2010 NASDSE Broadcast
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TO:       All District and ESD Special Education Directors

The message below is being forwarded to you on behalf of:


Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
______________________________________________
April 26, 2010

RE:   May 7, 2010 NASDSE Broadcast

Our fourth and final broadcast "Policy to the Classroom" will air via satellite on Friday, May 7, 2010 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. PT.  Please find attached the broadcast access information for this session.  Access information includes technical coordinates and streaming video link.  Additional instructional materials for this session will be posted at:  http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=258.

Local ESDs and schools may host this event through the Oregon Access Network.  For a list of network sites, please go to: http://www.ode.state.or.us/initiatives/oraccessnet/networksites.aspx.  For schools unable to participate in the live session broadcasts, the Department will continue to provide taped copies of the broadcasts for rebroadcast and/or dissemination by ESDs and schools.

As a reminder, because the conference is a subscription service, the access information is no longer available directly on the ODE website.  This information must remain within the state and should not be posted on any public websites at any time.


Please contact the special education director at your local ESD to confirm your attendance at these important training events.  Should you require further assistance or information, please contact Stella Brown at 503-947-5643, or by email at stella.brown at state.or.us<mailto:stella.brown at state.or.us>.

If you have any difficulty opening the attached document, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us>  or 503-947-5674.

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From Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us  Thu Apr 29 08:53:21 2010
From: Laura.Allran at ode.state.or.us (ALLRAN Laura)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:53:21 -0700
Subject: [esd-dir] OSL&P: Notice of Administrative Rules Hearing for May 26
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TO:   All District and ESD Special Education Directors

The message below is being forwarded to you on behalf of:


Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
______________________________________________
April 29, 2010

RE:  Notice of Administrative Rules Hearing for May 26

Pursuant to ORS 183.335(14)
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULES HEARING FOR PROPOSED ADOPTION BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Hearing Date:  May 26, 2010 - 1:00 p.m. - 2nd Floor, 251A/B - Oregon Department of Education - written or electronic testimony accepted until 5/26 - 5:00 p.m.

*         581-020-0301, 0333, 0335, 0359, 0380 - Charter Schools
*         581-020-0337 - Virtual Charter Schools
*         581-022-0421 - Safety of School Sports-Concussions
*         581-022-1132 - Credits for Assessment
*         581-037-0005 - Educational Assistants
*         581-051-0305 - Federal Safety Inspection Definitions

Proposed Drafts: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=2841

Search Education OARS http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/rules/OARS_500/OAR_581/581_tofc.html
........................................................................................................................................
What takes place at an OAR Hearing?

The purpose of an OAR hearing is to provide an opportunity for public comment on administrative rules proposed for adoption by the State Board of Education. These comments will be made part of the permanent record relating to the rule.

In addition to presenting oral comments, anyone may submit written comments about the proposed rule until 5:00 pm on the day of the hearing, which is the close of the public comment time.

Cindy Hunt, Legal Affairs Coordinator serves as the department's hearing officer. The hearing will be recorded for permanent record. The hearing officer will open the hearing and read the OAR number and its intention or purpose. The hearing officer will ask those in attendance for oral testimony. Those individuals will be heard. If there is written testimony at this time, it will be submitted.

The hearing officer will adjourn the public hearing and will not respond to questions.

After the close of the public comment period, the hearing officer will prepare a report to the department which will be available from the department.

If you have any difficulty opening the attached document, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us>  or 503-947-5674.

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