(A) The State Department of Education shall seek to develop and utilize the most current and promising methods for the education and training of people with intellectual disability. It shall utilize the assistance, service, and findings of other state and federal agencies.
(B) School-aged clients with intellectual disability have the right to an appropriate education regardless of the degree of retardation or accompanying disabilities as provided in Public Law 94-142, the Education of Handicapped Children Act. Placement of a school-aged person with intellectual disability in a facility of the department does not preclude his attendance in community-based public schools. It is the goal of each intellectual disability facility to effect a move of each resident client from facility-based educational programs to community-based public schools.
HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 366, Section 1; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 6, eff June 7, 2011.