{"id":298,"date":"2015-01-16T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-01-20T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:53:43","slug":"msde-notice-comment-period-opens-for-part-c-of-the-individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-idea-state-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/msde-notice-comment-period-opens-for-part-c-of-the-individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-idea-state-application\/","title":{"rendered":"MSDE Notice: Comment Period Opens For Part C Of The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) State Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Brian Morrison, Ph.D., 410-767-0863<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>The General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) requires Maryland to make the proposed State Application for Federal Funds under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) available for public review for 60 days and to accept comments for at least 30 days. The Maryland State Department of Education federal fiscal year (FFY) 2015 State Application for Federal Funds under Part C of IDEA is available for public review from <strong>January 16 through February 15, 2015 <\/strong>on the MSDE website at <a href=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org<\/a>.The proposed FFY 2015 State Application under Part C of IDEA is also available for review by visiting the office of the lead agency director of any of Maryland\u2019s local Infants and Toddlers Programs.<\/p>\n<p>The application includes a checklist of assurances that Maryland has policies and procedures in effect to comply with the requirements of IDEA. Maryland assures that policies and procedures will be in effect as changes in State and local procedures are made consistent with the IDEA. The plan for expenditure of state-level IDEA funds by category is also a component of the State Application.<\/p>\n<p>Written comments only will be accepted from <strong>January 16 through February 15, 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Comments must be addressed to:<\/p>\n<p>Brian Morrison, Ph.D.<br \/>\nSection Chief, Policy and Data<br \/>\nProgram Director, Maryland Infants and Toddlers<br \/>\nProgram Policy and Accountability Branch<br \/>\nDivision of Special Education\/Early Intervention Services<br \/>\n200 West Baltimore Street<br \/>\nBaltimore, Maryland 21201<br \/>\n<strong>OR<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"mailto:Brian.Morrison@maryland.gov\">Brian.Morrison@maryland.gov<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Maryland Part C Application FFY 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/MSDE\/divisions\/earlyinterv\/docs\/MD_Part_C_federal_application_FFY2015_IDEA_funds.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maryland Part C Application FFY 2015<\/strong><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/press\/gfx\/pdfsmall.png\" alt=\"PDF Document\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a title=\"MSDE NOTICE - Part C FFY 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/MSDE\/divisions\/earlyinterv\/docs\/MSDE_Notice_Part_C_2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MSDE NOTICE &#8211; Part C FFY 2015<\/strong><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/press\/gfx\/pdfsmall.png\" alt=\"PDF Document\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf you have any concerns regarding this notice, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Morrison at 410-767-0863.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Brian Morrison, Ph.D., 410-767-0863<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nThe General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) requires Maryland to make the proposed State Application for Federal <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/msde-notice-comment-period-opens-for-part-c-of-the-individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-idea-state-application\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}