CY2003 — THIRD QUARTER Federal Register Notice:

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services List of Correspondence from July 1, 2003 through September 30, 2003.
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August 22, 2003 to National School Transportation Association Regulatory Liaison Robin L. Leeds and National Association for Pupil Transportation Executive Director Michael J. Martin.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Special Education and Related Services
SECTION OF IDEA: Part A - General Provisions; Section 602 - Definitions
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August 22, 2003 OSEP memorandum 03-10.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Special Education and Related Services
SECTION OF IDEA: Part A - General Provisions; Section 602 - Definitions
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August 15, 2003 to individual (personally identifiable information redacted).
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Responsibilities of the Office of Special Education Programs
SECTION OF IDEA: Part A - General Provisions; Section 603 - Office of Special Education Programs
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July 1, 2003 OSEP memorandum 08-3.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Distribution of Funds
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 611 - Authorization; Allotment; Use of Funds; Authorization of Appropriations
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August 19, 2003 to Children's Advocacy Network of Florida Founder Beth Davis-Wellington.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Free Appropriate Public Education
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 612 - State Eligibility
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August 19, 2003 to Vermont Department of Education Legal Counsel Geoffrey A. Yudien.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Free Appropriate Public Education for Eligible Youth with Disabilities Incarcerated in Adult Prisons
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 612 - State Eligibility
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September 9, 2003 to North Dakota State Director of Special Education Robert Rutten.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Procedural Safeguards
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 612 - State Eligibility
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July 23, 2003 to individual (personally identifiable information redacted).
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Least Restrictive Environment
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 612 - State Eligibility
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July 1, 2003 to individual (personally identifiable information redacted).
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Least Restrictive Environment
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 612 - State Eligibility
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August 1, 2003 to Washington State Audit Manager Brad White.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Maintenance of Effort
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 612 - State Eligibility
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July 14, 2003 to New Hampshire Disabilities Rights Center Executive Director Dr. Richard Cohen.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Participation of Children With Disabilities in State and District-Wide Assessments
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 612 - State Eligibility
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August 8, 2003 to New York State Education Department Deputy Commissioner Lawrence C. Gloeckler.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Charter Schools
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 613 - Local Educational Agency Eligibility
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September 5, 2003 to Hofstra University Professor Frank G. Bowe.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Evaluations and Reevaluations
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 614 - Evaluations, Eligibility Determinations, Individualized Education Programs, and Educational Placements
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September 3, 2003 to U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Evaluations and Reevaluations
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 614 - Evaluations, Eligibility Determinations, Individualized Education Programs, and Educational Placements
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August 28, 2003 to Fort Thomas Kentucky Independent Schools Assistant Superintendent Rita Byrd.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Individualized Education Programs
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 614 - Evaluations, Eligibility Determinations, Individualized Education Programs, and Educational Placements
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August 28, 2003 to individual (personally identifiable information redacted).
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Individualized Education Programs
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 614 - Evaluations, Eligibility Determinations, Individualized Education Programs, and Educational Placements
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July 25, 2003 to individual (personally identifiable information redacted).
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Individualized Education Programs
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 614 - Evaluations, Eligibility Determinations, Individualized Education Programs, and Educational Placements
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July 10, 2003 to New Hampshire State Director of Special Education Mary J. Ford.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Surrogate Parents
SECTION OF IDEA: Part B - Assistance for Education of All Children With Disabilities; Section 615 - Procedural Safeguards
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August 19, 2003 to individual (personally identifiable information redacted).
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Procedural Safeguards
SECTION OF IDEA: Part C - Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities; Section 635 - Requirements for Statewide System
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August 28, 2003 to Chief State School Officers.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Free Appropriate Public Education
SECTION OF IDEA: Other Letters that Do Not Interpret the IDEA But May Be of Interest to Readers
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July 2, 2003 to Chief State School Officers.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Confidentiality of Education Records
SECTION OF IDEA: Other Letters that Do Not Interpret the IDEA But May Be of Interest to Readers
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July 28, 2003 to Chief State School Officers.
TOPIC ADDRESSED: Personnel Standards
SECTION OF IDEA: Other Letters that Do Not Interpret the IDEA But May Be of Interest to Readers
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