There are currently 23 Federal and Local Assurances to which each SELPA and member Local Education Agency (LEA) must adhere.  In approving the Local Plan, SELPA and each member LEA agrees that they will uphold each of these assurances, and they must cite the location of each corresponding local policy and procedure. 

They read as follows:

Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

Full Educational Opportunity

Child Find

Individualized Education Program (IEP) 

Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

Procedural Safeguards

Evaluation

Confidentiality

Part C Transition

Private Schools

Local Compliance Assurances

Interagency

Governance

Personnel Qualifications

Performance Goals and Indicators

Participation in Assessments

Supplementation of State/ Federal Funds

Maintenance of Effort (MOE)

Public Participation

Suspension/ Expulsion

Access to Instructional Materials

Over-identification and Disproportionality

Prohibition on Mandatory Medicine