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School boards must provide special education programs and services to students who are formally identified as “exceptional pupils.” This is set out in the Education Act.
Standards for school boards' special education plans. Read Ontario’s policy on province-wide standards that school boards must meet when developing their special education plans in Part B of Special Education in Ontario, Kindergarten to Grade 12: Policy and Resource Guide (2017).
The IPRC: decides if the student should be identified as exceptional; identifies areas of the student’s exceptionality; decides an appropriate placement for the student; and. reviews the student’s identification and placement at least once in each school year.
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The IPRC will: • decide whether or not your child should be identified with an exceptionality; • identify the areas of your child’s exceptionality, according to the categories and definitions of exceptionalities provided by the Ministry of Education; • decide an appropriate placement for your child.
School boards do not determine the elementary or secondary base fee. For further details, see O. Reg. 261/19 (Reciprocal Education Approach). A list of each school board’s elementary and secondary base fees, based on their estimates, is posted on the ministry’s website on an annual basis.
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Regulation 181/98 requires that all school boards convene Identification, Placement, and Review Committees (IPRCs). An IPRC is a formal committee that meets and decides if a student should be identified as an exceptional pupil and, if so, the placement that will best meet the student’s needs.
