The District will not place students with disabilities in special classes or separate schools, or otherwise remove them from the general educational environment unless the nature or severity of their disability is such that their education cannot be achieved satisfactorily in general education classes, even with the use of supplementary aids and services. In addition, the District will provide special services or programs to enable students with disabilities to be involved in and progress in the general curriculum, to the extent appropriate to their needs.
To fulfill its responsibility to educate students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment, the District will implement the provisions of section 200.6 of the Regulations of the Commissioner.
Pursuant to those provisions, students with disabilities placed together for purposes of receiving special education will be grouped by similarity of individual needs including their range of academic achievement, functional performance, and learning characteristics; social and physical development, and management needs.
The Director of Pupil Personnel Services will establish a process for ensuring that the CSE or CSE subcommittee Chairperson, as appropriate, obtains an up-to-date copy of those provisions at the beginning of each school year, and provides access to any amendments that become effective during the school year.
The District will provide students with disabilities the opportunity to participate with general education students in school-sponsored co-curricular and extracurricular activities, to the maximum extent appropriate to each individual student’s needs. The District will also provide students with disabilities with supplementary aids and services at school-sponsored co-curricular activities as determined to be appropriate and necessary by the CSE or CSE subcommittee.
Ref: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 USC §§1400 et seq.
8 NYCRR §§200.2(b)(4); 200.6
Adoption date: April 24, 2017
Amended date: June 2, 2025