24.01.2013 Views

SIRS - p-12 - New York State Education Department

SIRS - p-12 - New York State Education Department

SIRS - p-12 - New York State Education Department

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Chapter 5: Reporting Rules<br />

Services (NYSA GRS) division, using records retention schedule ED-1. Context for ED-1 is<br />

posted at http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/records/mr_retention.shtml, with a link to ED-1 at:<br />

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/records/mr_pub_ed1.shtml. NYSA GRS will provide support<br />

and guidance to educational entities by e-mail at recmgmt@mail.nysed.gov or phone at (518)<br />

474-6926. Additional contacts may be found at<br />

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/directories/dir_staff.shtml. Additional information on records<br />

retention is available at http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/records/mr_retention.shtml.<br />

Responsibility for Reporting Student Records Through the <strong>SIRS</strong><br />

Responsibility for the education of students falls in three categories: responsibility for<br />

providing general instruction, accountability for performance, and responsibility for determining<br />

eligibility for special education and providing appropriate special-education services. For the<br />

vast majority of students — those who attend a public school in the district in which their parent<br />

or guardian resides — all three responsibilities reside with the district of residence. In these<br />

cases, the school district must provide all required student records to the <strong>SIRS</strong>. When a<br />

student attends a school that is not a component of the public school district of residence,<br />

education and reporting responsibility may be divided among educational institutions. The<br />

institution responsible for reporting records for those students is determined by the following<br />

factors:<br />

• whether the parent or guardian, the public school district, another agency, or the<br />

court placed the child, and<br />

• in the case of students with disabilities, which institution has CSE or Committee<br />

on Preschool Special <strong>Education</strong> (CPSE) responsibility.<br />

The district of residence must report all records for students whom district officials or the<br />

district CSE or CPSE placed in educational programs outside the district (such as, BOCES,<br />

approved private schools for students with disabilities, or other educational programs). The<br />

district of residence is not responsible for reporting academic records for students placed by<br />

parents or legal guardians or by the court or a social service agency in educational programs<br />

outside the district of residence, unless it retains CSE responsibility for those students.<br />

Each public school district must report special-education records as well as<br />

demographic, enrollment, and program service records for all students for whom they have<br />

CSE or CSPE responsibility. Each public school district has CSE responsibility for students<br />

with disabilities parentally placed in nonpublic schools located within their district and for<br />

providing special-education services to those students. Districts must submit all required<br />

special-education records for these students.<br />

Every institution with CSE or CPSE responsibility for preschool or school-age children<br />

must report special-education records for those children regardless of where they attend<br />

school or receive services.<br />

Public school districts are responsible for providing general instruction, determining<br />

eligibility for special education, and providing appropriate special-education services for<br />

students in the categories listed below. In addition, public school districts are accountable for<br />

the performance of these students. Therefore, districts must report all required records for<br />

resident students in these categories.<br />

48 Student Information Repository System Manual for 2010–11 Version 6.2

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!