In order to provide special education for children with disabilities, the district school board of any school district in which there are school-age children who require special education:

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 343.221

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Instruction: means providing children and families with information and skills that support the achievement of the goals and outcomes in the child's individualized family service plan and working with preschool children with disabilities in one or more of the following developmental areas:

    (a) Communication development;

    (b) Social or emotional development;

    (c) Physical development, including vision and hearing;

    (d) Adaptive development; and

    (e) Cognitive development. See Oregon Statutes 343.035

  • Order: has the meaning given that term in ORS Chapter 183. See Oregon Statutes 343.035
  • Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Related services: means transportation and such developmental, corrective and other supportive services as are required to assist a child with a disability to benefit from special education, including:

    (A) Speech-language and audiology services;

    (B) Interpreting services;

    (C) Psychological services;

    (D) Physical and occupational therapy;

    (E) Recreation, including therapeutic recreation;

    (F) Social work services;

    (G) School nurse services designed to enable a child with a disability to receive a free appropriate public education as described in the individualized education program of the child;

    (H) Early identification and assessment of disabilities in children;

    (I) Counseling services, including rehabilitation counseling;

    (J) Orientation and mobility services;

    (K) Medical services for diagnostic or evaluation purposes;

    (L) Parent counseling and training; and

    (M) Assistive technology. See Oregon Statutes 343.035

  • School district: means a common or union high school district that is charged with the duty or contracted with by a public agency to educate children eligible for special education. See Oregon Statutes 343.035
  • Special education: includes instruction that:

    (a) May be conducted in the classroom, the home, a hospital, an institution, a special school or another setting; and

    (b) May involve physical education services, speech-language services, transition services or other related services designated by rule to be services to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability. See Oregon Statutes 343.035

(1) Shall submit an annual projected activities and cost statement to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for a program of special education for the district’s children with disabilities. The proposed district program shall include provisions for providing special education and related services and be designed to meet the unique needs of all resident children with disabilities.

(2) Shall provide special education for such children consistent with the projected activities and cost statement.

(3) May, when the board considers a contract to be economically feasible and in the interests of the learning opportunities of eligible children, contract for special education for such children with another school district if the district school boards jointly agree to provide special education.

(4) May, when the board considers a contract to be economically feasible and in the interests of the learning opportunities of eligible children, contract for special education for such children with an education service district if:

(a) The contract is consistent with the local service plan of the education service district developed pursuant to ORS § 334.175 and the school districts within the education service district approve the contract by a resolution adopted in the manner provided in ORS § 334.175.

(b) The school district contracts with an education service district pursuant to ORS § 334.185.

(5) May contract with private agencies or organizations approved by the State Board of Education for special education.

(6) May use the services of public agencies, including community mental health programs and community developmental disabilities programs, which provide diagnostic, evaluation and other related services for children.

(7) May contract for the provision of related services by a person in private practice if that person is registered, certified or licensed by the State of Oregon as qualified to provide a particular related service that requires registration, certification or licensing by the state. [1959 c.510 § 4 (343.211 to 343.291 and 343.990(2) enacted in lieu of 343.234 to 343.304 as compiled in 1957 Replacement Part); 1963 c.403 § 1; 1965 c.100 § 399; 1975 c.621 § 6; 1977 c.529 § 1; 1981 c.393 § 2; 1983 c.731 § 2; 2005 c.828 § 6; 2009 c.595 § 215]

 

[1953 c.444 § 6; repealed by 1955 c.721 § 1]

 

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