South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-1.1. Rules governing standards for special education
The South Dakota Board of Education Standards may adopt rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, governing standards for educational and noneducational programs, public and nonpublic, serving children in need of special education or special education and related services and children, ages birth through two, with developmental delays and severe disabilities; appeal procedures for disputes involving the placement or program of such children; and administration, funding and personnel associated with special education or special education and related services.
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-1.1
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Children: includes children by birth and by adoption. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- children in need of special education or special education and related services: means any person under the age of twenty-one years who is a resident of the State of South Dakota and who, because of his educational needs as defined by the South Dakota Board of Education Standards in rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26 and this chapter, is not adequately provided for through the usual facilities and services of the school and requires special education. See South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-1
- special education: means educational services and auxiliary services provided children in need of special education or special education and related services pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and shall include school instruction conforming as nearly as possible to the school program as defined in accreditation rules under duly qualified special education teachers to the extent that the child in need of special education or special education and related services is capable of profiting. See South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-2
Source: SL 1955, ch 41, ch 2, § 5; SDC Supp 1960, § 15.0905 (13); SDCL § 13-1-30; SL 1975, ch 128, § 230; SL 1988, ch 134, § 5; SL 1989, ch 150, § 3; SL 1990, ch 195, § 1; SL 1996, ch 99, § 4; SL 2017, ch 81, § 57.