Special EducationPersonnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities

Samenvatting

The Secretary establishes regulations governing specific provisions of the Personnel Preparation Program to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities. The regulations are needed to implement changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA or the Act) that were adopted as part of the IDEA Amendments of 1997. Specifically, the regulations establish procedures to implement section 673(h) of IDEA which requires that individuals who receive a scholarship through personnel preparation projects funded under the Act must subsequently provide special education and related services to children with disabilities (or, for leadership personnel, work in areas related to their preparation) for a period of two years for every year for which assistance was received. Scholarship recipients who do not satisfy their service obligation must repay all or part of the cost of their assistance in accordance with the regulations. The regulations implement requirements governing, among other things, the service obligation for scholars, oversight by grantees, repayment of scholarship, and procedures for obtaining deferrals or exemptions from service or repayment obligations.