To assist local education agencies (LEAs) in maintaining compliance with required special education posting requirements, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has provided the following information below.
To assist local education agencies (LEAs) in maintaining compliance with required special education posting requirements, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has provided the following information below.
Per federal or state law, school systems must have established outreach activities to keep families informed of their rights. School systems have the discretion to determine how they communicate this information to families.
While TEA encourages all school systems to be as transparent and communicative as possible with stakeholders, including the community at large and families of enrolled students, the following are the required postings related only to special education:
Per TEC §29.0112(e), ensure that a link to the Texas Transition and Employment Guide is available on the school system website. If preferred, the school system may post links to the individual documents as they are posted on the Texas SPED Support website or upload each PDF to the school systems website. In that case, the Texas Transition and Employment Guide must be available, at a minimum, in both English and Spanish.
Per the annual Special Education Consolidated Grant Program Guidelines, school systems must post to their public-facing website the logo, hyperlink, description, and contact information for SPEDTex, the Special Education Information Center.
School systems must have established outreach activities designed to locate children with disabilities who reside within the jurisdiction of the school system. The school system's public awareness campaign should target a wide variety of people who may work with the school system's students. Public awareness may include posters placed on campuses and district administration buildings. School system’s may choose to use TEA’s Child Find public awareness materials found on Texas SPED Support.
Additionally, TEA makes available several TEA Parent Fact Sheets which have been created as general resources for families that a school system may choose to use in lieu of creating their own.