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LR 2872
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Sec. 5. 20-A MRSA §7727, sub-§5, ¶¶B and C, as renumbered by PL 2001, c.
471, Pt. C, §4 and affected by §10, are amended to read:

 
B. That preschool children with disabilities, from age 3 to
under age 6, including those children who reach 5 years of
age between September 1st and October 15th who are already
receiving free, appropriate public education services
through the Child Development Services System and whose
parents choose, in accordance with rules adopted by the
commissioner, not to enroll those children in kindergarten
until the start of the following school year, have free,
appropriate public education services available to them at
no cost to the family;

 
C. That rules are developed, adopted and implemented
describing minimum standards for the following:

 
(1) Least restrictive environment;

 
(2) Nondiscrimination;

 
(3) Rights of parents, including, beginning in school
year 2004-2005, the right to choose to not enroll in
kindergarten until the start of the following school
year a child with disabilities who is already receiving
free, appropriate public education services through the
Child Development Services System and who will reach 5
years of age between September 1st and October 15th;

 
(4) Free and, appropriate public education services;

 
(5) Eligibility criteria;

 
(6) The federal "childfind" program;

 
(7) Program development, service descriptors and
service delivery;

 
(8) Early childhood team;

 
(9) Individualized family service plan;

 
(10) Statements of assurances;

 
(11) Procedural safeguards and appeals processes;

 
(12) Due process hearings;


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