When deaf or hard of hearing and blind children excused.

Attendance at the state-operated school may be excused when the superintendent of the state-operated school certifies that an interdisciplinary staffing team has determined, pursuant to the requirements of chapter 256B , that the child is efficiently taught for the scholastic year in an accredited nonpublic or other school devoted to the instruction, by a private tutor, in the public schools, or is shown to be physically or mentally unable to attend school under section 299.5 . [S13, §2718-f; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4431; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §299.22 ] 91 Acts, ch 200, §19 ; 2020 Acts, ch 1102, §23 Referred to in §299.2