256B.3 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION.
256B.3 POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIVISION OF SPECIAL
EDUCATION.
The division of special education has the following duties and
powers:
1. To aid in the organization of special schools, classes and
instructional facilities for children requiring special education,
and to supervise the system of special education for children
requiring special education.
2. To administer rules adopted by the state board that are
consistent with this chapter for the approval of plans for special
education programs and services submitted by the director of special
education of the area education agency.
3. To adopt plans for the establishment and maintenance of day
classes, schools, home instruction, and other methods of special
education for children requiring special education.
4. To purchase and otherwise acquire special equipment,
appliances and other aids for use in special education, and to loan
or lease same under such rules and regulations as the department may
prescribe.
5. To prescribe courses of study, and curricula for special
schools, special classes and special instruction of children
requiring special education, including physical and psychological
examinations, and to prescribe minimum requirements for children
requiring special education to be admitted to any such special
schools, classes or instruction.
6. To provide for certification by the director of special
education of the eligibility of children requiring special education
for admission to, or discharge from, special schools, classes or
instruction.
7. To initiate the establishment of classes for children
requiring special education or home study services in hospitals,
nursing, convalescent, juvenile and private homes, in cooperation
with the management thereof and local school districts or area
education agency boards.
8. To cooperate with school districts or area education agency
boards in arranging for any child requiring special education to
attend school in a district other than the one in which the child
resides when there is no available special school, class, or
instruction in the districts in which the child resides.
9. To cooperate with existing agencies such as the department of
human services, the Iowa department of public health, the state
school for the deaf, the Iowa braille and sight saving school, the
state tuberculosis sanatorium, the children's hospitals, or other
agencies concerned with the welfare and health of children requiring
special education in the coordination of their educational activities
for such children.
10. To investigate and study the needs, methods and costs of
special education for children requiring special education.
11. To provide for the employment and establish standards for the
performance of special education support personnel required to assist
in the identification of and educational programs for children
requiring special education.
12. To provide for the establishment of special education
research and demonstration projects and models for special education
program development.
13. To establish a special education resource, materials and
training system for the purposes of developing specialized
instructional materials and provide in-service training to personnel
employed to provide educational services to children requiring
special education.
14. To approve the acquisition and use of special facilities
designed for the purpose of providing educational services to
children requiring special education.
15. To make rules to carry out the powers and duties provided for
in this section. Section History: Early Form
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 281.3] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 96, § 160; 83 Acts, ch 101, § 64; 86 Acts, ch 1245, §
1477, 1478
C93, § 256B.3