Advanced Section 504 Training - Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost

Important Considerations: Discipline
Manifestation Determination
Must be conducted before a disciplinary change
of placement is contemplated
Section 504 does not provide the standard to
consider
IDEA standard
1. Was the conduct in question caused by, or was
there a direct and substantial relationship to the
child’s disability, or
2. Was the conduct in question the direct result of the
district’s failure to implement the Section 504 plan
52