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Chapter 6. General Provisions
IC 20-35-6-1
Notification to school corporation of preschool children with
disabilities
Sec. 1. Before February 1 of each calendar year, a program for
preschool children with disabilities that is supported by the division
of family resources shall notify a school corporation of the numbers
and disabling conditions of the children who are likely to enter into
a program of special education in the school corporation in the
immediately following school year.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.19. Amended by P.L.145-2006,
SEC.153.
IC 20-35-6-2
Contracts for services; payment of costs; rules
Sec. 2. (a) The state superintendent may contract with in-state or
out-of-state public and private schools, state agencies, or child caring
institutions (as defined in IC 12-7-2-29(1)) to pay, with any funds
appropriated for this purpose, the excess costs of educating children
of school age:
(1) who have been identified as eligible for special education
services; and
(2) whose disability is of such intensity as to preclude
achievement in the existing local public school setting.
The state shall pay the costs of the services that exceed the regular
cost of educating children of the same age and grade level in the
child's school corporation. The school corporation shall pay the share
of the total tuition cost that is the regular per capita cost of general
education in that school corporation.
(b) School corporations shall pay their share of the total tuition
costs for children with disabilities served under this section.
(c) The state board shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to
implement this section.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.19.
