281—35.5(282) Provision of appropriate educational services.
	35.5(1) A private facility is to fully cooperate with the area education agency and school district in which the facility is located to fulfill the area education agency’s responsibilities for child find under 281—Chapter 41, including making a child available for evaluation and provision of services for which the child is eligible.
	35.5(2) If a child does not need treatment or security by a private facility in such a time or manner as is needed to remain on the campus of the private facility, a child with an individual education plan is to be provided special education instruction and related services with other nondisabled children within the least restrictive environment to the maximum extent appropriate.
	35.5(3) The area education agency in which the private facility is located, the school district of residence, and other appropriate public or private agencies or private individuals involved with the care or placement of a child will cooperate with the school district in which the private facility is located in sharing educational information, textbooks, curricula, assignments, and materials to plan and to provide for the appropriate education of the child living in a private facility and to ensure academic credit is granted to the child for instructional time earned upon discharge from the private residential facility.
	35.5(4) A private facility that houses eligible children who are four years of age by September 15 of the school year will notify the parents or legal guardians of these eligible children about the opportunities to access quality preschool programs. Children whose parents are Iowa residents may access the statewide voluntary preschool program under 281—Chapter 16 at no cost to the parents, and transportation will be provided by the public school district in which the statewide voluntary preschool provider is located from the school district’s statewide voluntary preschool programs funding. Children whose parents are not Iowa residents may access the statewide voluntary preschool programs, if space is available, through a tuition and transportation agreement with the public school district in which the statewide voluntary preschool program provider is located.
[ARC 7656C, IAB 3/6/24, effective 4/10/24]