1. Shelton School District Special Services
School Board of Directors Presentation Special Education Overview October 26, 2010
Presented by: Ed Born
Director of Special Services

2. Basic Principles of IDEA
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) is the provision of regular or special education and related services that are designed to meet the individual educational needs of disabled persons as adequately as the needs of non-disabled persons are met
Childfind/Referral
Appropriate Evaluations
Individual Education Program (IEP)
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

3. Basic Principles of IDEA
Related Services
Parental Rights in All Phases of Programs
Extensive Procedural Safeguard (Due Process and Compliant Procedure)
Discipline, Stay Put Rule and right to continued FAPE, Manifestation determination, functional behavioral assessment; behavior intervention plan; interim alternative education setting
Surrogate Parents

4. Mason County Special Services Cooperative
The Cooperative consists of 4 school Districts
Grapeview School District
Mary M. Knight School District
Shelton School District
Southside School District

5. Mason County Special Services Cooperative Consists of two types of Cooperatives
Individual Student Cooperative
Cooperative serves students who are severely developmentally disabled. These students are served in the Shelton School District.
Itinerant Services Cooperative
Cooperative provides itinerant personnel (School Psychologists, SLP, OT/PT) to the outlying districts.

6. Numbers of Students Served at Each District
May 2010 P223H Report
Grapeview = 21
Mary M. Knight = 14
Shelton = 722
Southside = 23
Total students
served = 780

7. Special Education Programs and Services
Birth to Five Services:
Birth to Three Program
Developmental Preschool Program
ECEAP
K-12 Programs:
Behavior Management Program
Developmentally Disabled Program
Resource Room Program (mild, moderate, disabled in class program with support)

8. Shelton School District Special Education Programs
Birth To 3 – 16
3 – 5 years of age – 52
Kindergarten – 5th - 276
Bordeaux – 78
Evergreen – 91
Mt. View – 107
OMS 6th – 7th – 96
OBJH 8th – 9th – 90
SHS 10th – 12th – 160
CHOICE 9th – 12th - 31

9. Special Education Funding
2010 School Year Revenue
State Special Education Revenue – 71%
Federal Special Education Revenue – 18%
Cooperative generated Special Education Revenue – 2%
Special Ed ARRA Revenue – 9%