Section 511 IAC 7-48-3 - Expenditure requirementsAuthority: IC 20-43-7-9
Affected: IC 20-43-1-8.5; IC 20-43-7-9
Sec. 3.
(a) The amount of the state special education grant that the school corporation must expend on services to the group of parentally-placed nonpublic school students with disabilities during a calendar year shall be based on the child count of parentally-placed nonpublic school students with disabilities reported on December 1 immediately preceding that calendar year.(b) Beginning in calendar year 2012 and no later than December 31, the school corporation must, at a minimum and exclusive of federal special education funds, expend the amount determined in subsection (a) on special education and related services to parentally-placed nonpublic school students with disabilities under this article.(c) The school corporation may expend state special education grant funds on behalf of parentally-placed nonpublic school students with disabilities to provide the following: (1) Child find activities as defined in IC 20-43-1-8.5 and 511 IAC 7-40, including evaluations, reevaluations, and independent educational evaluations.(d) By December 31 of each calendar year, the department shall establish and publish the following: (1) Procedures and forms for school corporations to report the amount of state special education grant funds generated by and expended on services to parentally-placed nonpublic school students with disabilities.(2) Procedures to be utilized by the department in monitoring a school corporation's compliance with this rule, including the consequences for a school corporation's failure to comply with any of the following: (C) Procedures established under this rule.(3) Procedures for a school corporation to appeal a finding of noncompliance.(e) Beginning with calendar year 2012, the school corporation shall comply with the reporting requirements established by the department, and the department shall monitor the school corporation's compliance with such requirements.(f) The department shall monitor the school corporation's actual expenditures under this rule in the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the expenditures were required.(g) The department shall notify the school corporation in writing of any noncompliance. The written notice shall include the following:(1) The nature of the noncompliance.(2) The corrective action the school corporation must take.(3) The deadline for the corrective action to be implemented.(4) The consequences for failing to take the corrective action by the established deadline.(5) The process to appeal the department's findings.Indiana State Board of Education; 511 IAC 7-48-3; filed Aug 28, 2012, 2:04 p.m.: 20120926-IR-511110771FRAReadopted filed 10/23/2018, 2:37 p.m.: 20181121-IR-511180327RFA