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BOARD OF EDUCATION
IEP DIPLOMA |
INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION PROGRAM DIPLOMAS
The
Board of Education and District staff shall comply with all federal and state requirements concerning the education
of children with disabilities.
In
addition to any other requirements, the committee on special education will
make every effort to incorporate in a student's individualized education
program as many of
the requirements for a high school diploma as set forth in section 100.5 of the
Regulations of the
Commissioner of Education as possible. All students, including those with
disabilities, shall be given the greatest opportunity possible to earn a
Regents or local
diploma.
A
student with a disability who has attained the age of twenty-one and has
achieved the educational goals contained in his/her current individualized
education program shall be awarded a high school individualized education
program diploma. Upon application of a student with a disability, or the
student's parent, an individualized
education
program diploma shall be issued if the student has attended school, or received
a substantially equivalent education elsewhere, for twelve years exclusive of kindergarten, if the student has
achieved the educational goals specified in the student's current individualized education
program.
Each high
school individualized education program diploma shall indicate on its face that
it is awarded on the basis of the student's successful achievement of the educational
goals specified in the student's current individualized education program as recommended by the committee on special education.
If a
student receiving a high school individualized education program diploma is
less than twenty-one years of age, the diploma shall be accompanied by a
written assurance of the student's continued right to attend public school
until the end of the school year in which the student reaches age twenty-one,
or until the student has earned a high school diploma, whichever is earlier.
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