NC 1501-6.10 Location of Services and Transportation

Plain English summary

This regulation governs where services may be delivered to parentally-placed private school children with disabilities, including on private or religious school premises. It establishes specific transportation obligations for LEAs, requiring transport between service sites and the child's home or private school, but explicitly exempting LEAs from providing home-to-private-school transportation. Transportation costs may count toward the LEA's required expenditure calculations.

Key requirements

• Services to parentally-placed private school children with disabilities may be provided on the premises of private, including religious, schools, to the extent consistent with law.
• If necessary for the child to benefit from or participate in the services provided under this section, a parentally-placed private school child with a disability must be provided transportation from the child's school or the child's home to a site other than the private school.
• If necessary for the child to benefit from or participate in the services provided under this section, a parentally-placed private school child with a disability must be provided transportation from the service site to the private school, or to the child's home, depending on the timing of the services.
• LEAs are not required to provide transportation from the child's home to the private school.
• The cost of the transportation described above may be included in calculating whether the LEA has met the required expenditures.

Affected parties

• parentally-placed private school children with disabilities
• local education agencies (LEAs)
• private school administrators
• religious school administrators
• parents of private school children with disabilities

Official source

https://www.dpi.nc.gov/documents/publications/catalog/ec144-policies-governing-services/open#page=34