Scholar Resource & Responsibility Guide

Parents/Guardians who have a concern about their child’s progress in school, suspect that their child may have a disability or may need Special Education services should contact their building principal to request interventions as designed by the building scholar success team, or a special education evaluation. 

Special Education is specially designed instruction, support, and services provided to scholars with an identified disability that requires individually designed instructional services or programs to meet their unique learning needs. The purpose of special education is to enable scholars to make progress in the general education curriculum by being provided a free appropriate public education (FAPE). 

Any scholar suspected of having a disability shall be evaluated by a Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team as defined in the Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education (MARSE) at R 340.1701b (b). In addition to the requirements in R 340.1705 to R 340.1717, the Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team shall do the following:

1. Complete an individual evaluation based on Review of Existing Evaluation Data (REED).
2. Make a recommendation of eligibility and prepare a written report to be presented to the Individualized Education Program Team by the designated Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team member who can explain the instructional implication of evaluation results. The report shall include information needed by the Individualized Education Program Team to determine all of the following:
   • Eligibility
   • A scholar’s present level of academic achievement and functional performance
   • The educational needs of the scholar 

Special Education personnel who are authorized to conduct evaluations of scholars suspected of having a disability may provide consultation to general education personnel for the purpose of prevention and intervention.