Who Is Responsible For The IEPs Of Children With Disabilities Who Are Placed In Private Schools By A LEA IEP Team?

According to South Carolina's Office of Exceptional Children Policies and Procedures released April 6, 2009, before placing a child with a disability in a private school or facility, the LEA must conduct a meeting and develop an IEP. The IEP team may place a child in a private school as the result of the initial IEP meeting or as the result of a meeting to review an existing IEP. However, at the meeting in which a child is placed in a private school, the LEA must ensure that a representative of the private school is present at the meeting or participates in the meeting through other means, such as individual or conference telephone call. After the initial IEP meeting, subsequesnt meetings to review the IEP may be conducted by the private school. A representative of the LEA must attend these subsequent IEP meetings. Although the services are proveded at the private school, the LEA remains responsible for asssuring that the IEP is implemented.