SIRS - p-12 - New York State Education Department
SIRS - p-12 - New York State Education Department
SIRS - p-12 - New York State Education Department
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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