Sec.10-76d-4. Physical facilities and equipment

(a) Physical facilities. Each board of education shall provide special education and related services in a physical environment appropriate to the child's needs as set forth in the child's individualized education program.

(1) Children requiring special education and related services shall receive special education and related services in general education facilities where appropriate.

(2) Special education and related services shall be provided in facilities which meet all building, health and safety codes.

(3) Children with limited mobility shall have access, free from barriers to their mobility, to those areas to which access is necessary for the implementation of their individualized education programs.

(4) A board of education may rent special education facilities. Such facilities shall meet the requirements as set forth in section 10-76d-4(a) (1) through (3) of these regulations. To receive payment for rental of special education facilities, a board of education shall document that adequate space is not available in any of its public school buildings and that rental is necessary because of improvement in or expansion of the special education program. Rented facilities for special education may be used to house general education classes where such use is a means of initiating or improving special education programs or facilities within a regular public school building.

(b) Equipment or assistive technology device. Each board of education shall provide education equipment or assistive technology devices and instructional and related service materials sufficient to meet the requirements of each child's individualized education program. An “assistive technology device” means an assistive technology device as defined in the IDEA.

(1) The board of education shall maintain an inventory of all education equipment and assistive technology devices purchased with IDEA funds costing more than four thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars per unit if the cost of the equipment or assistive technology device is included in special education costs for purposes of payment. The inventory shall identify the equipment or assistive technology device and state its cost, date of purchase and current use or disposition. Records of inventories of such education equipment and assistive technology devices shall be retained for three years beyond the useful life or disposition of the equipment or assistive technology device.

(2) All equipment, assistive technology devices and instructional and related service materials for which full payment is sought shall be used exclusively for special education and related services. Payment for all shared equipment and materials shall be prorated in accordance with the proportion of time such equipment and materials are used for special education and related services.

(Effective September 1, 1980; Amended July 1, 2013)