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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03-3" citation="COMAR 13A.08.07.03-3" title_num="13A" subtitle_num="08" chapter_num="07" heading="Post-Enrollment Educational Decision Making.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Definitions.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>In this regulation, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Terms Defined.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“General education decisions” means decisions involving nonspecial education services, including, but not limited to:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Field trip authorization;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Parent-teacher conferences;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Signing report cards;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Guidance office matters;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>Choice of academic programs and courses;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vi)">
          <text>Career program choices;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vii)">
          <text>Testing authorization;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(viii)">
          <text>Special programs authorization, for example, for sex education or armed forces recruiting;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ix)">
          <text>Choice of magnet school or other nonzoned schools;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(x)">
          <text>School health-related decisions;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(xi)">
          <text>School discipline;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(xii)">
          <text>Sports and other extracurricular participation; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(xiii)">
          <text>Parental options under No Child Left Behind.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Parent surrogate” has the meaning stated in Education Article, §8-412(a)(6), Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>“Special education decisions” means all decisions relating to identification, evaluation, educational placement, or discipline of a child with a disability as defined in Education Article, §8-401, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>General Education Decision Making.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The persons authorized to make general education decisions are:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A natural parent, if the natural parent retains educational decision-making authority; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The placement agency caseworker, or person designated by the caseworker, such as:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>A parent, as defined in Regulation .02B(6) of this chapter;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>An education guardian;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>A formal kinship care provider;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>A residential child care program representative; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>A treatment foster care caseworker.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Within 10 days of enrollment in school of the child in State-supervised care, the placement agency caseworker with care and custody of the child shall identify and provide contact information to the receiving school concerning which person listed in §B(1) of this regulation is:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The primary decision maker for general education decisions; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The secondary decision maker if the primary decision maker is unavailable.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The local school system shall maintain in the student's school record the information provided §B of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Special Education Decision Making.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The persons authorized to make special education decisions is the parent surrogate or the parent as defined in Regulation .02B(6) of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The local superintendent shall appoint a parent surrogate in compliance with the requirements and timelines set forth in Education Article, §8-412, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The local school system shall maintain all parent surrogate documentation in the student record.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>