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Draft Part B: Standards for School Boards’ Special Education Plans Requirements of the Standard
The board’s special education plan must provide the following information concerning its SEAC:
• names and affiliation of members
• meeting times and locations
• a contact address, telephone number, and/or e-mail address for each
member
• procedures for selecting members
• where applicable, a note that a board has membership to represent the
interests of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students
The plan must provide a description of ways in which the board’s SEAC fulfilled its roles and responsibilities during the school year in which the plan was developed. This description should include information on
the documentation that has been provided to the SEAC to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities. The roles and responsibilities of the SEAC are
as follows:
• making recommendations to the board with respect to any matter affecting the establishment, development, and delivery of special education programs and services for exceptional students within the board
• participating in the board’s annual review of its special education plan
• participating in the development of the board’s annual budget for special
education
• reviewing the financial statements of the board as they relate to special
education
The plan must also include a description of ways in which parents and other members of the public can make their views known to the SEAC.
Compliance with the Standard
The ministry will review the school board’s special education plan to ensure that it includes the information listed above and that it is consistent with Regulation 464/97.
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