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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-4B-02" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="4B" subtitle_name="Physical Education and Athletic Programs for Students With Disabilities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the State Board and each county board shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Ensure that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Participate in mainstream physical education programs; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Try out for and, if selected, participate in mainstream athletic programs;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Ensure the provision of reasonable accommodations necessary to provide students with disabilities equal opportunity to participate, to the fullest extent possible, in mainstream physical education and mainstream athletic programs; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Ensure that adapted, allied, or unified physical education and athletic programs are available and adequately funded by the county board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An exception to the requirements under subsection (a) of this section may be made when the inclusion of a student:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Presents an objective safety risk to the student or to others, based on an individualized assessment of the student; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fundamentally alters the nature of the school’s mainstream physical education or mainstream athletic program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The provision of adapted, allied, or unified programs for students with disabilities does not mitigate the duty of a county board to provide an individual student with a disability an equal opportunity to be fully included in mainstream physical education and mainstream athletic programs.</text>
  </level>
</section>
