Download Points to Remember Regarding Section 504

Points to Remember
Regarding Section 504
• Accommodations, Not Modifications
• “Reasonable” Accommodations
• Equal Access – Level the playing field
• Refusal to implement a 504 Plan is willful discrimination and a
Section 1983 Violation
• OCR often uses IDEA guidelines, including discipline
protections - except current drug and alcohol use/sale
automatically cancels 504 protections
• Confidentiality provisions apply to Section 504
• Child Find duty for 504 – just like Special Education
• AIMS -
“Pupils with Section 504 Plans as defined in Section
15-731 shall not be required to achieve passing scores on
competency tests in order to graduate from high school…”
• Make sure testing accommodations are addressed.
• Make sure a copy of the 504 plan (and Testing
Accommodations) is sent to SSC (Fax to Joan Kern at X20705),
a copy is put in the student’s cum file and is coded correctly in
Synergy.