From Peter.Bernard at maine.gov  Mon Aug 25 15:39:53 2008
From: Peter.Bernard at maine.gov (Bernard, Peter)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:39:53 -0400
Subject: [PAAP] Notice regarding Partial PAAPs
Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B03CA7D45@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us>

Hello Everyone,

Hope you have found time to relax and enjoy the summer despite less than
optimum weather conditions.  Kim, Peter, and I have been working to
prepare new materials for 2008 and 2009.  New tasks have been posted in
the Task Bank throughout the summer, the Rubrics have been posted and
re-posted as minor edits were made, and the 2008-2009 Manual will be
ready for the Web site shortly.

During the summer, we also made a request to the United States
Department of Education USDE) that we be allowed to reinstitute the use
of "partial PAAPs".  Last Thursday, USDE staff members approved that
request!  We are pleased that the IEP teams making decisions about how a
student will participate in state assessments will be able to do it BY
CONTENT AREA.  We feel that this will provide much more appropriate
measures for those students who do have much more significant
disabilities in one content area than another.

If this change will affect IEP decisions already made for this year, you
may make the IEP amendments without a face-to-face meeting, but rather
through the use of the process available for making relatively small
amendments to an IEP.  Please make sure you document such a change in
student records.

Kim will include training relative to this change in the upcoming all
trainings.  If you have not yet registered, please check the PAAP Web
site (www.mecas.org/paap) to get registration information.


Kim and Linda

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