{"id":3146,"date":"2010-05-20T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2010-06-03T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:05:48","slug":"are-special-ed-teachers-required-to-attend-eligibility-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-special-ed-teachers-required-to-attend-eligibility-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Special Ed Teachers Required to Attend Eligibility Meetings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Are%20Special%20Ed%20Teachers%20Required%20to%20Attend%20Eligibility%20Meetings%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>I am having difficulty finding who is required to attend the initial Evaluation Team Report (ETR) meeting to determine eligibility.\u00a0 Are special education teachers required to attend or is it just &#8220;best practice&#8221; to invite one?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px 5px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/mtg.large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"83\" \/>There is no federal &#8220;list&#8221; of required people who attend eligibility meetings. Under Determination of Eligibility and Educational Need&#8221;\u00a0 the law says this &#8220;shall be made by a team of qualified professionals\u00a0 and the parent of the child &#8230;&#8221; 20 U.S.C. 1414(b)(4)<\/p>\n<p>If the child is suspected of having a specific learning disability, there are additional requirements and procedures.\u00a0 34 C.F.R. 300.307-310.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Regarding evaluations and reevaluations, 20 USC 1414(c)\u00a0 specifies that a review of existing evaluation data be conducted by &#8220;the IEP team (which includes at least one special ed teacher by law) and other qualified professionals.&#8221; This group shall review:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> existing evaluation data<\/li>\n<li> evaluations and information provided by the parents<\/li>\n<li> current assessments<\/li>\n<li> classroom observations<\/li>\n<li>observations by teacher and related services providers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and identify what additional data is needed.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, state regulations differ from state to state. Some state regulations specify that the IEP team is always part of the team making eligibility decisions.\u00a0 In that case, a special education teacher would be required to attend.<\/p>\n<p>From a legal or &#8220;best practice&#8221; perspective, a meeting to determine\u00a0 eligibility for special education should include at least one special education teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Check your state regulations to determine whether there is a specific requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know the requirement in your state?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am having difficulty finding who is required to attend the initial Evaluation Team Report (ETR) meeting to determine eligibility.\u00a0 Are special education teachers required to attend or is it <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/are-special-ed-teachers-required-to-attend-eligibility-meetings\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,161,1367],"tags":[598,170,599,160,600],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eligibility","category-teachers","category-assessments-tests","tag-eligibility-determination","tag-eligibilty","tag-etr","tag-iep-team","tag-special-ed-teachers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}