1. Updates: Office for Exceptional Children
June 7, 2018

2. Preparing All Students for Success

3. Office for Exceptional Children Update’s
Ohio’s Operating Standards for the Education of Children with Disabilities
New ETR and IEP Forms
Dispute Resolution
Parent Notice Document

4. Office for Exceptional Children Update’s
Innovative Strategies for Developing College and Career Readiness for Students with Disabilities - Grant
Striving Readers Grant
Parent Notice Document

5. Ohio Operating Standards for the Education of Children with Disabilities
The Ohio Operating Standards for the Education of Children with Disabilities

6. Ohio Operating Standards for the Education of Children with Disabilities

7. Operating Standards Fall 2018/Winter 2019: Board Process
Spring 2019: File rules with Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR)
Summer 2019: Rules are finalized
Fall 2018/Winter 2019: Board Process
Spring 2019: File rules with Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR)
Summer 2019: Rules are finalized

8. Operating Standards
Winter/Spring 2018: OEC/ODE Internal Review Progress
Fall 2018: Stakeholder feedback/Post rules for 30 days public comment
Five year rule revision of the Operating Standards – 10 rules
Definitions, FAPE, Child Find, Confidentiality, Procedural Safeguards, Evaluation, IEPs, Parentally Placed Nonpublic Children, Transportation, Delivery of Services, Visual Impairments
Winter/Spring 2018: OEC/ODE Internal Review Progress
Fall 2018: State Advisory Panel for Exceptional Children (SAPEC) Meeting/Post rules for 30 days public comment

9. New ETR and IEP Forms
New IEP and ETR forms are posted on our website.

10. New ETR and IEP Forms New ETR and IEP forms posted on ODE’s website
July 1
New ETR and IEP forms are posted on our website. Districts will start using forms July 1
Some of the highlights include:
Emphasis on transition starting at age 14 in the areas of Post Secondary Training and Education, Competitive Integrated Employment,
and Independent Living
Emphasis on monitoring students progress to ensure they are making adequate progress on their goals
Information about the student’s reading and monitoring improvement plan in the student profile
Question: Is the student on track or off track for reading?
Third Reading Guarantee and
Is the child excused from the consequences of not passing required graduation tests? YES NO
The child is excused from the consequences of not passing the required graduation tests in the
following

11. Universal Support Materials
Search:
Universal Support Materials
ODE has universal support materials available on our website
to walk you through the process

12. Dispute Resolution
Within the Office for Exceptional Children, we have a Dispute Resolution Team that works very closely with families and districts to assist
with resolving concerns or disagreements.
Early Complaint Resolution process – Parent contacts someone on the Dispute Resolution Team to help address questions or concerns about their child’s
special education program
Facilitation process, mediation, and due process
Each year will collect data on the number of requests we receive for facilitations, mediations and due processes

13. Dispute Resolution Data Summary
May
185 direct requests for facilitation
May
245 direct requests for facilitation
Facilitation – If a parent has a concern about the evaluation or reevaluation of their child for special education or about their child’s IEP
OEC would arrange for a facilitator to attend the evaluation team meeting or IEP meeting.
Facilitator is a neutral, third party who is not a member of the team and does not make decisions for the team
Is a professionally trained mediator who has been trained on and knows about special education laws and requirements
Helps to open up conversation between the parent and district
Keep the meeting on track and helps to keep everyone respectful of the process
Process is voluntary. Both the parent and the school district must agree to be part of the process.
As you can see, during the school year, we had 185 requests for facilitation, for the school year we had 245
We are pleased to see that more parents are requesting facilitation and want to try and problem solve the issues they are having with the district.

14. Dispute Resolution Data Summary
May
84 direct requests for mediation
May
90 direct requests for mediation
Mediation –
The mediator is a neutral third party.
The parent and school district agree upon a mediator
The parent and the school district each share their concerns. The mediator helps the parent and the district settle the dispute and come to a final written agreement.
The written agreement is binding and both the parent and the school district sign it.
Mediation is voluntary and confidential
84 direct requests for mediation

15. Dispute Resolution Data Summary
May
164 due process filed
6 decisions rendered (4%)
May
162 due process filed
2 decisions rendered (1%)
Due Process – Parents can request a due process hearing
The due process complaint must allege that federal or state special education requirements have been violated.
Identification, evaluation, educational placement, or delivery of a free appropriate public education
164 due process filed
162 due process filed

16. Innovative Strategies for Developing College and Career Readiness for Students with Disabilities Application for Grant Funds

17. Application for Grant Funds
To assist Ohio’s school districts, educational service centers, and Career Technical Planning Districts in utilizing evidence-based predictors and practices to improve the coordination and delivery of secondary transition services.
Objective:
To assist Ohio’s school districts, educational service centers, and Career Technical Planning Districts in utilizing evidence-based predictors and practices to improve the coordination and delivery of secondary transition services.
These strategies will better prepare students with disabilities for successful post-school outcomes.

18. Application for Grant Funds
Educational entity must be the lead agency/fiscal agent 16 Grants will be awarded; 1 per SST Region Up to $100,000 per grant award for FY19 Due June 15, 2018 by 5:00pm, no exceptions Grant awardees notified at beginning of July
Applications should assess the current implementation of secondary transition services.
Prioritize the needs for the transition-aged students with disabilities served in their district.
Create an innovative strategy to improve current, or implement new, services based on the results of their needs assessment.

19. Application for Grant Funds
Access Grant here:
Contact Emilie Coen and Amy Szymanski with questions

20. Striving Readers Grants

21. Congratulations to our awardees!
46 Subgrantees 21 Consortia
In March
Application due: March 2.
$33.25 million dollars will be awarded to single or consortia partners.
46 subgrant awardees
Birth-Age 5: 20 awards
K-grade 5: 23 awards
Middle School: 28 awards
High School: 26 awards
21 Consortia
112 consortia members
$33.25 million dollars

22. Ohio’s Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement guides the literacy work of the department.
Striving Readers subgrantees are required by the US DOE to have a local Literacy Plan that is aligned to the state plan.

23. Where to Find Ohio’s Plan
education.ohio.gov Search keyword “Literacy”
education.ohio.gov/Topics/Learning-in-Ohio/Literacy
If you have not yet had a chance to read this plan- we highly recommend that you take time to become familiar with this document.
Section 4 outlines the Departments vision for literacy achievement in great detail.

24. education.ohio.gov

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