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Attached Document:
08-ocfs-inf-08.pdf
OMM/OCFS/OTDA Materials: INFs issued by OCFS
08-OCFS-INF-08: Educational Considerations When Making Out-of-State Facility Placements
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The purpose of this Informational Letter (INF) is to provide social services districts and applicable voluntary foster care agencies with a set of recommended questions pertaining to education when making out-of-state facility placements. The State Education Department (SED) is statutorily required to approve private out-of-state schools that serve children with disabilities referred for placements by local school district committees on special education (CSEs). A registry of these approved schools is available at href="/onlineresources/">href="http://www.vesid.nysed.gov/sedcar/schoollsts/outofstate.htm">www.vesid.nysed.gov/sedcar/schoollsts/outofstate.htm. This list does not cover the education programs of some out-of-state residential foster care or mental health facilities. Ideally, SED, local school districts or their CSEs would be available to assist social services districts in the process of evaluating the quality of the educational programs of such out-of-state facilities. However, such assistance is often limited. To help address this issue, the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) has worked collaboratively with SED to obtain a list of questions that can be used as an assessment tool when determining if the educational needs of children will likely be met in a facility licensed by another state.
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Created: 1/14/2009
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