EVALUATION PROCEDURES
The district ensures that children with disabilities are evaluated in accordance with 92 NAC 51-006.
Procedures to ensure that testing and evaluation materials and procedures utilized for the purposes of evaluation and placement of children with disabilities will be selected and administered so as not to be racially or culturally discriminatory. Such materials or procedures shall be provided and administered in the child’s native language or mode of communication, unless it is clearly not feasible to do so, and no single procedure shall be the sole criterion for determining an appropriate educational program for a child.
The district will periodically collect students’ reading, math, and writing performance data to allow school teams to make data-based decisions to determine who is in need of general education interventions in accordance with 92 NAC 52-006. Interventions will include evidenced-based practices. The students’ progress will be monitored in the area of the deficit at least twice a month School teams will review all collected data, and if it is suspected that a student has a specific learning disability, the student will be referred for an evaluation. The parent has a right to request an evaluation at any time. The district will develop procedures to ensure compliance with all Federal and state regulations concerning evaluations. District education and assessment staff will be trained annually on procedures and district-level policies.
NDE document “Supporting Document to Checklist of Required Special Education Policies, Procedures and practices for Part B of the IDEA” shall serve as an administrative procedure to this policy. The entire document can be found at http://www.education.ne.gov/sped/regulations.html.
Approved July 14, 2014 Reviewed _______________ Revised October 9, 2023
