Gilbert L Sena Policy Alignment

The Gilbert L Sena Charter High School Special Education Policy is congruent with both the New Mexico State Board of Education's Special Education Regulations, 6.31.2 NMAC, the Standards for Excellence, 6.30.2 NMAC, Non-Regulatory Guidance IDEA 2004 (issued August 1, 2005), and the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004 (IDEA), 20 U.S.C section 1414, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 20 U.S.C. section 6301 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. section 794 et seq., and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. section 1232 et seq. GSHS has aligned this manual with the N.M. Technical Evaluation Assessment Manual, published in August 2017 by the New Mexico PED.The applicable New Mexico State laws establish a structure in which a charter school is semi-autonomous while functioning under the overall supervision of its local school board. Under IDEA's classification, GSHS is therefore a public school that is part of a Local Educational Agency (LEA), and not a LEA unto itself.