Special Education Notice
Lindbergh Schools Parent Information Lindbergh Schools is required by law to provide this information to parents and guardians each year, to keep you informed and ensure that you are aware of your family's rights and responsibilities as they pertain to our district. If you have any questions about the information in this brochure, please contact us at 729-2480. Special Education Notice All responsible public agencies are required to locate, evaluate, and identify children with disabilities who are under the jurisdiction of the agency, regardless of the severity of the disability, including non-resident children attending private schools; highly mobile children, such as migrant and homeless children; and children who are suspected of having a disability and in need of special education even though they are advancing from grade to grade. Lindbergh Schools in partnership with the Special School District of St. Louis County assure that a free, appropriate public education (FAPE) is provided to all eligible children with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21 under their jurisdiction. Disabilities include autism, deaf/blindness, emotional disorders, hearing impairment and deafness, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairments, specific learning disabilities, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment/blindness and young child with a developmental delay. Retaliatory actions based on making complaints of prohibited discrimination or participation in an investigation, formal proceeding or informal resolution concerning prohibited discrimination; Aiding, abetting, inciting, compelling or coercing discrimination; and Discrimination against any person because of such person’s association with a person protected from discrimination due to one or more of the above-stated characteristics. To ensure that these obligations are met, the Board designates the following individual to act as the district’s nondiscrimination laws compliance coordinator: Dr. Brian McKenney, Assistant Superintendent, Personnel, 4900 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63126, (314) 729-2480 Complaints and reports regarding discharge of the duties summarized in this policy should be addressed to the compliance coordinator. In the event the compliance Lindbergh Schools in partnership with the Special School District of St. Louis County coordinator is the subject of a report that would otherwise be made to the compliassure that they will provide information and referral services necessary to assist the ance coordinator, reports should be directed to: Dr. Nancy Rathjen, Assistant State in the implementation of early intervention services for infants and toddlers Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction, 4900 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO eligible for the Missouri’s First Steps Program. 63126, (314) 729-2480 Lindbergh Schools in partnership with the Special School District of St. Louis County assure that personally identifiable information collected, used, or maintained by the districts for the purposes of identification, evaluation, placement or provision of FAPE of children with disabilities may be inspected and/or reviewed by their parents/ guardians. Parents/guardians may request amendment to the educational record if the parent/guardian believes the record is inaccurate, misleading, or violates the privacy or other rights of their child. Parents have the right to file complaints with the U.S. Department of Education or the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education concerning alleged failures by the district to meet the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The Special School District of St. Louis County has developed a local Compliance Plan for implementation of State Regulations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004 (IDEA-2004). This Plan and School Board Policies contain the district’s procedures regarding storage, disclosure to third parties, retention and destruction of personally identifiable information and the district’s assurances that services are provided in compliance with General Education Provision Act (GEPA). This Plan is available for public review in the Office of the Superintendent of Schools during regular school hours on days school is in session. This notice will be provided in native languages as appropriate. A copy of this policy will be posted in a public area of each building used for instruction and/or administrative offices. A copy of this policy will also be distributed annually to employees, parents or guardians, and students. Accessibility Notice All programs offered in Lindbergh Schools are accessible to individuals with disabilities. The following Lindbergh facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities: Crestwood, Kennerly, Long, Sappington and Concord elementary schools, Sperreng and Truman middle schools, Lindbergh High School, Lindbergh Early Childhood Center, and the District Administration office. FERPA Notice The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords parents and students over 18 years of age (“eligible students”) certain rights with respect to the student’s education records. These rights are outlined below: 1. The right to inspect and review the student’s education records within 45 days of the day the district receives a request for access. Parents or eligible students should submit to the school principal (or appropriate school official) a written request As a political subdivision, employer, recipient of federal funds and an educational institution, the Board of Education is prohibited from, and hereby declares Policy AC that identifies the record(s) they wish to inspect. The principal will make arrangeagainst engaging in unlawful discrimination, including harassment creating a hostile ments for access and notify the parent or eligible student of the time and place where the records may be inspected. environment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, age or use of leave protected by the Family and Medical Act in its pro2. The right to request the amendment of the student’s education records that the grams, activities, services and with regard to employment. The Board is an equal parent or eligible student believes are inaccurate. Parents or eligible students may opportunity employer. ask Lindbergh Schools to amend a record that they believe is inaccurate. They should write the school principal, clearly identify the part of the record they want As part of this obligation, the Board is also prohibited from, and declares a policy changed, and specify why it is inaccurate. If the district decides not to amend the against: record as requested by the parent or eligible student, the district will notify the parent Non-Discrimination Law Compliance or eligible student of the decision and advise them of their right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the parent or eligible student when notified of the right to a hearing. school day period, the school district may disclose any of those items designated as Directory Information without prior written consent. Parents or students who do not want this information released should write to the attention of: Deborah Nalley, Lindbergh Schools, 4900 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63126 3. The right to consent to disclosures of personally identifiable information contained in the student’s education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes without consent. One exception which permits disclosure without consent is disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is a person Additional Information Under No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 employed by the district as an administrator, supervisor, instructor, or support staff Upon your request, our district would be happy to provide to you in a timely manner member (including health or medical staff and law enforcement unit personnel); a the following information about the qualifications of your child’s teacher(s): person serving on the School Board; a person or company with whom the district has contracted to perform a special task (such as an attorney, auditor, medical consult Whether your child’s teacher has met state qualification and licensing ant, or therapist); or a parent or student serving on an official committee, such as a criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing provides instruction. his or her tasks. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official Whether your child’s teacher is teaching under emergency or other needs to review an educational record in order to fulfill his or her professional responprovisional status through which state qualification or licensing criteria sibility. The district may also disclose education records without consent to officials have been waived. of another school district in which a student seeks or intends to enroll. Whether your child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications. Lindbergh Schools has determined that the Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corpora What baccalaureate degree major the teacher has and any other gradution (VICC) and its officers, employees and agents are school officials with legitimate ate certification or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline educational interests because they act for and on the behalf of the district with reof the certification. spect to transfer students and the transfer program, and because they seek to advance the interests of both. A transfer student’s attendance records and other eduIn addition to the information that parents may request, districts must provide to cational records relevant to the student’s participation in the program or to the proeach individual parent: gram itself may accordingly be disclosed to VICC without obtaining written consent from the parent/guardian or eligible student. Information on the achievement level of the parent’s child in each of the 4. The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning state academic assessments as required under this part; and alleged failures by Lindbergh Schools to comply with the requirements of FERPA. Timely notice that the parent’s child has been assigned, or has been The address of the office that administers FERPA is: Family Policy Compliance taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC qualified. 20202-4605. Standard Complaint Resolution Procedure for No Child Left Behind Programs Student Directory Information Directory information may be released by school officials. This includes print and electronic publications of the school district that, if disclosed, would not be considered as determined by Lindbergh Schools as harmful or an invasion of privacy. This information may be released without prior written consent to parent and student organizations for marketing purposes, such as for “buzz” books produced in the fall and publications for the activities department, and to outside organizations including, but not limited to, companies that manufacture class rings or publish yearbooks in the spring. Other examples include play bills for drama productions; yearbooks; honor roll or other recognition lists; graduation programs; and sports activity sheets. In addition, two federal laws require the district to provide military recruiters, upon request, with three directory information categories - names, addresses, and telephone listings - unless parents have advised us that they do not want their student’s information disclosed without their prior written consent. Such information is also considered a “public record” which must be released upon demand to any person who requests it, under the Missouri Sunshine Law. This complaint resolution procedure applies to all programs administered by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). A complaint is a formal allegation that a specific federal or state law or regulation has been violated, misapplied, or misinterpreted by school district personnel or by Department of Education personnel. Any parent or guardian, surrogate parent, teacher, administrator, school board member, or other person directly involved with an activity, program, or project operated under the general supervision of the Department may file a complaint. Such a complaint must be in writing and signed; it will provide specific details of the situation and indicate the law or regulation that is allegedly being violated, misapplied, or misinterpreted. The written, signed complaint must be filed and the resolution pursued in accordance with the Lindbergh Schools complaint and grievance policy: found in the LindThe school district designates the following items as Directory Information: student’s bergh Schools Rights and Responsibilities Handbook. If the issue cannot be rename, parent’s name, address, telephone number, electronic mail address, date and solved at the local level, the complaint may file a complaint with the Missouri Departplace of birth, grade level, major field of study, enrollment status, participation in ment of Education. If there is not evidence that the parties have attempted in good officially recognized activities and sports including audiovisual or photographic recfaith to resolve the complaint at the local level, the Department may require the ords of the openly visible activities thereof, weight and height of members of the parties to do so and may provide technical assistance to facilitate such resolution. athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees, honors, awards received, most recent previous school attended and photographic including photographs of regular school Any persons directly affected by the actions of the Department may file a similarly activities that do not disclose specific academic information about the child and/or written complaint if they believe state or federal laws or regulations have been violatwould not be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy. ed, misapplied, or misinterpreted by the Department itself. Parents of a student under 18 and students 18 or older have ten (10) school days Anyone wishing more information about this procedure or how complaints are reafter this annual public notice is published to view the student’s Directory Information solved may contact Lindbergh Schools or Missouri Department of Elementary and and to provide notice in writing to the school district that they choose to not have this Secondary Education. information released. Unless notified to the contrary in writing within the ten (10) (314) 729-2480 ● 4900 S. Lindbergh Blvd ● www.lindberghschools.ws Eric Cochran at 314-729-2400 ext. 1815. Meet Your Lindbergh Schools Principals Andrew Croley Lindbergh High School Dr. Mark Eggers Sperreng Middle School Dr. Tara Sparks Truman Middle School Dr. Megan Stryjewski Concord Elementary Jodi Meese Crestwood Elementary Dr. Jana Parker Long Elementary Dr. Todd Morgan Kennerly Elementary Craig Hamby Sappington Elementary Charlene Ziegler Director, Lindbergh Early Childhood Education Lindbergh Schools 4900 S. Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63126 Non-Profit U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 770 St. Louis, MO Residential Customer LINDBERGH SCHOOLS Parental Notification Newsletter Fall 2013 Important Information Inside: Page 1 Special Education Notice Non-Discrimination Law Compliance Accessibility Notice FERPA Notice Page 2 Page 3 Directory Information No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Standard Complaint Pages 4-5 Resolution Procedure Food Service Update for NCLB Programs Pages 6-10 Request for Health Insurance Information Free/Reduced Lunch Guidelines and Application Page 11 Meet the Principals
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