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1. Federal Monitoring this Fall

The public input meetings will be held the week of October 5^th and the on-site visit will occur the week of December 7^th. The monitoring will be more of a "focused monitoring’ approach based on previous monitoring records and public input.

2. Utah Law Conference – August 4-5th

Melinda Maloney won’t be able to present but JoLeta Reynolds will most likely be here. On Monday, August 3^rd due process training will be presented in the morning and mediation training in the afternoon. Dale Sheld suggested that the training sessions be videotaped.

3. Task force Updates

 

Evaluation & Eligibility	They suggest changing the term "pre-referral interventions" to "at-risk interventions". This committee is continuing to meet to work on recommendations for the eligibility criteria for all of the disability areas.
IEP	Tom Burchett presented the IEP Task Force’s recommendation for revising the table of contents for the state rules. The Planning Committee suggests placing the procedural safeguards section at the beginning of the state rules in a separate section. He also presented a different format for organizing each section of the rules. (See sample handouts.)
Interagency Agreements	The Planning Committee recommended that the Task Force use the language from the old rules and add the agreements in as attachments. The Task Force is working on the agreement concerning healthcare and Medicaid.
Procedural Safeguards	The Planning Committee recommended that information regarding independent educational evaluations should be included in the procedural safeguards section of the state rules. It was decided that districts would decide where to place specific elements on their forms rather than follow a consistent pattern in all districts.
State Assessment	This Task Force is "on hold" pending the final regulations. There will be an inservice for USOE and ULRC staff next week.
State Improvement Grant and CSPD	The RFP is expected sometime in May. Information is being assembled for putting the proposal together including needs assessment data on student outcomes, personnel shortages, federal citations on past monitoring visits. Attempts are being made to coordinate with all other title programs.
Discipline	This Task Force is "on hold" pending the final regulations.
Monitoring	This Task Force met with Ginger this week and reviewed information discussed thus far with her as well as the federal monitoring information from the OSEP Leadership Training held in April.
Finance	No new information.
Placement	No new information.

 

4. Timeline for State Rules Development

USOE will read through everything the Task Forces have recommended. Mae suspects that the public hearings will be held during the summer months. She also indicated that the three required readings with the State Board of Education could be accomplished at the same time that the public hearings are held.

Task Forces can submit information until June 2^nd and then all information will be copied for the June 4^th meeting. We assume we will have final regulations by then. (We can hope.)

If the final regulations are available by Memorial Day, we will make copies for all Planning Committee Members and send them five days before the June 4^th meeting.

4. Miscellaneous

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