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Least Restrictive Environment
Least Restrictive Environment
Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004), each public agency must ensure that, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are nondisabled; and special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services IDEA §612 (a)(5).
Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004), each public agency must ensure that, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are nondisabled; and special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services IDEA §612 (a)(5).
Interagency Collaboration
Interagency Collaboration
Pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §1401, et seq., and the litigation known as Cordero, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (Department) has participated with other child-serving agencies in developing a system for providing intensive interagency coordination to students with disabilities whose local educational agencies (LEAs) have determined that they cannot be appropriately educated in a public educational setting and who have waited more than 30 days for the provision of an appropriate educational placement.
The current public children's behavioral health system in Pennsylvania is based on the principles and framework developed more than 20 years ago through the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP). Click the Department of Human Services Logo above to learn more.
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