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I wanted to share some information with you all and here is the place to find it. Commissioner’s Rules on Graduation Changes [] Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, school districts will be required to review the content of locally developed courses for alignment with the TEKS to ensure students receive instruction that is aligned with the required course and respective EOC assessment. 89.1070 (c) "Graduation by IEP"-
 * Graduation:

 This instructional arrangement/setting code is used for a student who is participating in a special education work-based learning program and is employed in a paid full- or part-time job with regularly scheduled direct involvement by special education personnel in the implementation of the student’s IEP. This instructional arrangement/setting code must be used in conjunction with the student's individual transition plan and only after your school district's career and technical classes have been considered and determined inappropriate for the student. This code applies to a student in paid full-time or part-time employment, as documented in the IEP. This instructional setting code should not be confused with general career and technical education classes that are offered by your district. A student with a disability may participate in other occupational preparation programs (which do not generate special education contact hours), including general career and technical education and career and technical education for the disabled (CTED) classes. However, the student must be employed, receiving special education services as required in the IEP, and coded VAC (08) to claim special education contact hours. []
 * VAC vs CTE-Students


 * SPP Indicator 14 data-state and regional data available through your ESC


 * Personal Graduation Plan/IEP- the IEP must contain all the requirements for PGP if the IEP is going to serve as the PGP

--Added 2/11/2011 [] This Q and A document was shared at the Texas Transition Confrence. There were some questions regarding when IEP annual goals needed to be academic and when they needed to be functional. This document is in the process of being updated to include the information on "functional goals", but I thought I would share it anyway.
 * Post-Secondary Goals/Annual Goals/Objectives

To follow the stages of the bill see: []
 * SB 35 & HB 357

Here is the letter to Gray that I told you all about as well.