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Jefferson County Education Service District

Code:
IGBAJ
Adopted:
4/01/09

IGBAJ – Special Education - Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

Adopted:
April 1, 2009
Posted on this site:
October 29, 2026
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(Required only if ESD is contractor for ODE direct service programs)

  1. The ESD admits all resident school age children with disabilities and makes special education and related services available at no cost to those:
    1. Who have reached five years of age but have not yet reached 21 years of age on or before September 1 of the current school year, even if they have not failed or have not been retained in a course or grade or are advancing from grade to grade;
    2. Who have not graduated with a regular diploma;
    3. Who have been suspended or expelled in accordance with special education discipline provisions; or
    4. Who reach age 21 before the end of the school year. These students remain eligible until the end of the school year in which they reach 21.
  2. The ESD determines residency in accordance with Oregon law.
  3. The ESD takes steps to ensure that its children with disabilities have available to them the variety of educational programs and services available to nondisabled children in the area served by the component district and provides a continuum of services to meet the individual special education needs of all resident children with disabilities, including resident children enrolled in component district charter schools.
  4. The ESD may, but is not required to, provide special education and related services to a student who has graduated with a regular diploma.
  5. State law prohibits the ESD from recommending to parents, or requiring a child to obtain, a prescription for medication to affect or alter thought processes, mood or behavior as a condition of attending school, receiving an evaluation to determine eligibility for early childhood special education or special education, or receiving special education services.
  6. If the IEP team determines that placement in a public or private residential program is necessary to provide FAPE, the program, including nonmedical care and room and board, must be at no cost to the parents of the child.
  7. If a parent revokes consent for a student receiving special education and related services, the ESD will not be considered to be in violation of the requirement to make FAPE available to the student because of the failure to provide the student with further special education and related services.

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