{"id":940,"date":"2017-10-05T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.mdek12.org\/testsite2\/ecse-indicator-6\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:12:05","slug":"ecse-indicator-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/ecse-indicator-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicator 6: Preschool Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Indicator 6:<\/h3>\n<p>Indicator 6 of the SPP\/APR measures the percentage of preschool children ages 3 through 5 with IEPs attending a<\/p>\n<p>A: Regular early childhood program and receiving the majority of special education and related services in the regular early childhood program; and<\/p>\n<p>B: Separate education class, separate school or a residential facility.<\/p>\n<p>** &#8211; Five-year-old children who participate in a kindergarten program are not included in this count. Those students are included in Indicator 5. Only three-, four- and five-year-old students in <strong>preschool<\/strong> classes should be included in the Indicator 6 count.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Offices\/MDE\/OAE\/OSE\/Early-Childhood\/PreS-Settings\/web-indicator-6-decision-tree.pdf\">Decision Tree<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>To help school districts understand how to classify preschool students for reporting on Indicator 6, the Office of Special Education created this decision tree.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Guidance<\/h3>\n<p>OSEP issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Offices\/MDE\/OAE\/OSE\/Early-Childhood\/PreS-Settings\/preschoollre22912.pdf\"><strong>Dear Colleague letter<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;on February 29, 2012, which reiterated that the least restrictive environment (LRE) requirements apply to the placement of preschool children with disabilities.<\/p>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indicator 6: Indicator 6 of the SPP\/APR measures the percentage of preschool children ages 3 through 5 with IEPs attending a A: Regular early childhood program and receiving the majority of special education and related services in the regular early childhood program; and B: Separate education class, separate school or a residential facility. ** &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/specialeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}