• There will be an addendum in regards to about six of the rules and they should come out in July.
  
  
• Rules 1809 and 1810 WILL come back. It was never an attempt to remove the money, it was misunderstood, and they will be back.  (Mr. Brock stated this twice.)
  
  
• Every time the rules are cut, it lessens the burden on government.
  
  
• IEPs are in charge of programs, programs are not rule based or driven.
  
  
• The rationales are the closest to the truth we could come.
  
  
• On talking about extended school years for SXI, SMI, Mr. Brock said, Extended school years are IEP issues and should be for ALL kids.

Some questions asked and Mr. Brock’s responses: 

• What about the task force not matching up with some of the proposed rules, how do you explain that? 
  
  
  • Just because the task force was there and referred to, didn’t mean they needed to match.
    
    
• How do you expect the groups involved in the ratio approval to ever agree on the ratio? 
  
  
  • WE don’t.
    
    
• How will the department of education make the process go smoothly when the rules are final, and how long will it take? 
  
  
  • About 1-2 years until districts and ISD will have to have their plans ready and comply.
    
    
• Can the office of regulated reform have a say in these rules? 
  
  
  • Office of regulated reform is a group of lawyers who will approve or not approve these rules, and right now, they like these rules.
    
    
• Will the proposed rules be re-written or just parts of it based on public comment? 
  
  
  • Can not just add new rules, would have to have public comment on any new changes, like the addendum coming out will have public comment time.
    
• How will parents and stakeholders be trained in the new rules once final? 
  
  
  • Our advocacy groups will train, they get money from us, so they will do the training, like ARC, CAUSE, MP&A.
    
    
• Will the ratio cause bigger class sizes? 
  
  
  • Needs to be decided by the superintendents and the others we talked about in the ISD.
    
    
• 0-3 is an issue, how will this 1 area of disability affect them in service provided? 
  
  
  • Well, we don’t know much about that diagnostic stuff, we are looking to you folks for help in that area.
    
    
• Who will pay for an Aide in an inclusion situation? 
  
  
  • The IEP will decide if it should come out of the general fund, or special ed fund.
    
    
• How will you guarantee a student of certain impairment will be with a teacher endorsed and certified in that impairment?
  
  
  • That will be the district’s responsibly to go and find someone and contract them.

  

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