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Section 504 Plan

  • Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires public schools to provide accommodations to students with disabilities even if they do not qualify for special education services under IDEA.

  • To be protected under Section 504, a student must be determined to: (1) have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; or (2) have a record of such an impairment; or (3) be regarded as having such an impairment. See 504 FAC at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.

Foster Student

  • PER 45CFR Sec. 1355.20: Foster care means 24-hour substitute care for children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the title IV-E agency has placement and care responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, placements in foster family homes, foster homes of relatives, group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, child care institutions, and pre adoptive homes. A child is in foster care in accordance with this definition regardless of whether the foster care facility is licensed and payments are made by the State, Tribal or local agency for the care of the child, whether adoption subsidy payments are being made prior to the finalization of an adoption, or whether there is Federal matching of any payments that are made.

High Ability Student

  • High ability students are students that participate in a high ability program as defined by IC 20-36 and 511 IAC 6-9.1.

  • High ability students have been formally identified by the school corporation’s multifaceted identification process, deemed eligible for high ability services, and are receiving services during the current school year.

  • Students can be identified as High Ability in the following areas:

    1. General Intellectual

    2. Math

    3. Language Arts

    4. Other

Homeless Student

  • A homeless student is defined as a student who meets one of the following criteria when considering their primary nighttime residence:

    • Doubled-Up: student shares housing due to loss of housing or economic hardship

    • Shelters and Transitional Housing: student lives there due to an emergency, domestic violence, or transitional shelter.

    • Unsheltered: student is living in a campground, trailer park, car, parks, public spaces, temporary trailers, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, or bus/train stations for lack of housing.

    • Hotels/Motels: Student living in hotels/motels for lack of housing.

Click here for more detail on the McKinney-Vento definition of homelessness.

Students of Active Duty Parent(s) or Guardians

  • Students that have been identified as one or both parents/guardians are actively serving in any branch of the Armed Forces. Report students where the parents/guardians are or were active duty members of any Branch of the Armed Forces (Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard) even if the parent becomes inactive during the school year OR if the parent becomes active during the school year AND you are notified; otherwise report the student the following year when data is collected for the new school year. 

Unaccompanied Homeless Youth

  • A student that is not in the physical custody of the parents or legal guardians and who fits the McKinney-Vento definition of homeless. See here for more detail.

Unaccompanied Youth

  • A student that is not in the physical custody of the parents or legal guardians.

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