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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>TO:
All District and ESD Special Education Directors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The message below
is being forwarded to you on behalf of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Nancy Latini, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Assistant Superintendent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Student Learning
& Partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>______________________________________________
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>April 7, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>This went out
to all superintendents this afternoon and I wanted to be sure you saw a copy. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Nancy Latini,
PhD<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Assistant
Superintendent<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Student
Learning & Partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>RE: <b>REVISED
ODE GUIDANCE: Long Term Care and Treatment Facilities Children Placed by
Parents</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>The Oregon Department of Education (Department) has recently
become aware of issues related to the way public education is made available to
children who are placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs)
by their parents or guardians. After reviewing the applicable state and
federal laws and considering Departmental policy relating to the provision of
public education to students in PRTFs within Oregon, the Department has decided
to issue revised guidance concerning the responsibility of Oregon school
districts to provide public education to resident children placed in PRTFs by
their parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Prior Department Guidance Regarding Children Placed in PRTFs by
Parents<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>The Department has not previously issued guidance to school
districts concerning this issue. However, the Department has issued
guidance to local educational agencies in the State that provide educational
services to Long-Term Care and Treatment (LTCT) students that included
information about children placed in PRTFs by their parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>LTCT students are children placed in PRTFs by State agencies such
as the Oregon Department of Human Services or the Oregon Youth Authority.
LTCT students are provided a public education by local educational agencies
that contract with the Department to provide educational services at specific
PRTFs throughout the State. In a 2008 memo to these contract service
providers, the Department discussed the provision of public education to
children placed by their parents in PRTFs serviced by the providers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>The memo suggested to the service providers that they inform the
parents of parentally-placed PRTF children of the option to enroll their
children in the district in which the PRTF is located as out-of-district,
tuition students. Though the 2008 memo did not explicitly state that
children placed by their parents in PRTFs were not entitled to a public
education in Oregon, it implied that the parents of such children had opted out
of public education in the State. The Department’s recent review
has caused us to revise this guidance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Revised Department Guidance <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Under Oregon law, children in PRTFs are residents of the school
district in which their parents or persons in a parental relationship to the
child reside. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the district in
which a parentally-placed PRTF child’s parents reside to provide a public
education to such children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>In practice, this means that the child’s resident district
is often different than the district in which the PRTF is located. For
example, a child whose parents reside in District A but is placed in a PRTF
located in District B remains a resident of District A for the purposes of
Oregon school residency. In this situation, it is the responsibility of
District A under Oregon law to provide a public education to the child regardless
of the physical distance separating Districts A and B. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>As discussed above, prior Department guidance implied that, in
situations where a parent places a child in a PRTF outside of their resident
district, the resident district no longer had an obligation to provide a public
education to the child. However, the language of the Oregon school
residency statute, read in conjunction with the anti-discrimination provisions
of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, does not allow Oregon school
districts to exclude children from public education as a result of a parental
decision to place a child in a residential treatment facility for
psychiatric/medical purposes. Therefore, the Department advises school
districts to make a public education available to resident children placed by
their parents in PRTFs regardless of where the PRTF is located.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Interim Solution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>The Department recognizes the difficulty of providing educational
services to students who are not physically present within school district
boundaries. In order to lessen the burden of providing public education
to students in PRTFs, the Department is implementing the following procedures
with regard to children placed in PRTFs by their parents:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:
Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Department
contractors who are currently responsible for providing public education to
LTCT students will immediately notify children’s resident school
districts when Oregon children are placed by their parents in PRTFs covered by
an LTCT contract.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:
Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>LTCT
contractors will provide educational services to all children placed in the
facilities that are served pursuant to Department contracts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:
Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The
resident district will consider the child enrolled in the district for purposes
of accounting and distribution of state school funds. Districts will be
able to report those students on their ADM count upon notification from the
LTCT contractor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:
Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The
resident district will enter into an agreement with the Department’s
contracted LTCT educational service provider to provide services to the
parentally-placed child at the PRTF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>This arrangement is intended to be an interim solution to the
problem of providing public education to children who are physically removed
from their resident school district for the purpose of receiving
psychiatric/medical care. This solution will ensure that all children in
LTCT facilities, regardless of how they were placed in the facility, will
receive a public education from the current LTCT contractors and that the
children’s resident districts will forward the appropriate state school
funds to the contractors. The Department will instruct LTCT contractors
to begin educating children placed in covered PRTFs by their parents on or
before April 15, 2010. These provisions apply to students
parentally-placed in residential programs and to those placed in day
treatment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>The Department is currently working with the Oregon State
Legislature and a group of stakeholders to identify and implement a permanent
solution that reduces the burden on Oregon school districts while still
providing public education to all eligible children in the State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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