Title 16, Title 16: Education

§ 2945. State Advisory Panel on Special Education (a) The State Advisory Panel on Special Education (Panel) is created to provide guidance with respect to special education and related services for children with disabilities in the State. Members of the Panel shall be appointed b…

§ 2948. State aid (a) For the payment of general State aid, children with disabilities shall be counted in the same manner as children who do not have disabilities. (b) [Repealed.] (c) Each supervisory union shall receive an essential early education grant each school year. Grant…

§ 2949. Reciprocal agreements with other states The State Board of Education, with the approval of the Attorney General, is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with the boards of education in other states to share in the expense of securing the services of specialists …

§ 2950. State-placed students (a) Supervisory union reimbursement. The supervisory union in which there is a school district responsible for educating a State-placed student under section 1075 of this title may claim and the Secretary shall reimburse 100 percent of all special ed…

§ 2955. Confidential information Nothing in 12 V.S.A. § 1612(a) shall apply to this chapter. (Added 1981, No. 221 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)

§ 2956. Essential early education After June 30, 1991, all eligible children with disabilities three through five years of age shall have access to appropriate essential early education services. (Added 1987, No. 68, § 4; amended 1989, No. 230 (Adj. Sess.), § 11; 1995, No. 157 (A…

§ 2957. Special education administrative and judicial appeals; limitations (a) An action against a local, intermediate, or State education agency seeking enforcement of special education rights under State or federal law shall be commenced by an administrative due process hearing…

§ 2958. Residential Placement Review Team; residential placements (a) A supervisory union shall notify the parents and the Secretary when it believes residential placement is a possible option for inclusion in a child’s individualized education program. (b) The Secretary may esta…

§ 2959. Rulemaking; mediation (a) The State Board shall adopt rules governing the determination of a child’s eligibility for special education, accounting and financial reporting standards, program requirements, procedural requirements, and the identification of the supervisory u…

§ 2959a. Education Medicaid receipts (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that the State of Vermont shall maximize its receipt of federal Medicaid dollars available for reimbursement of medically related services provided to students who are Medicaid eligible. It is furth…

§ 2959b. Individualized education programs A school district or supervisory union responsible for developing an individualized education program for a child with a disability may consider the cost of the provision of special education or related services to the child if: (1) the …

§ 2961. Census grant [Contingently repealed effective July 1, 2028] (Added 1987, No. 235 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; amended 1989, No. 230 (Adj. Sess.), § 15, eff. July 1, 1991; 1995, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § 13; 1997, No. 60, §§ 30, 30a, eff. July 1, 1998; 2003, No. 130 (Adj. Sess.), § 6;…

§ 2962. Extraordinary special education reimbursement (a)(1) As used in this section, “child” means a student with disabilities who is three years of age or older in the current school year. (2) As used in this subchapter, “extraordinary expenditures” means a supervisory union’s …

§ 2965. Withholding of aid If a supervisory union, school district, or agency fails to meet its legally established obligations toward a child with a disability or the child’s parent, and as a result the Agency of Education incurs costs to meet these obligations beyond those othe…

§ 2967. Aid projection (a) On or before December 15, the Secretary shall publish an estimate, by each supervisory union, of its anticipated State special education funding under this chapter for the ensuing school year. (b) As used in this section, State special education funding…

§ 2969. Payments (a)(1) On or before August 15, December 15, and April 15 of each fiscal year, the State Treasurer shall withdraw from the Education Fund, based on a warrant issued by the Commissioner of Finance and Management, and shall forward to each supervisory union one-thir…

§ 2973. Independent school tuition rates (a)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an approved independent school that accepts public tuition shall enroll any student with an individualized education program who requires special education services and who is pl…

§ 2973a. Special education; best practices; policy It is the public policy of the State that integrated special education services are recognized as an essential responsibility of the educational system that benefits all students and contribute to the good of the State. This sect…

§ 2974. Special education program; fiscal review Annually, the Secretary shall report to the State Board regarding: (1) the total amount of census grants made to supervisory unions under section 2961 of this title; (2) the total amount of extraordinary special education reimburse…

§ 2975. Unusual special education costs; financial assistance The Secretary may use funds for allowable special education expenditures, as defined in State Board of Education rules, to directly assist supervisory unions with special education expenditures of an unusual or unexpec…