Q&A
Alternatives for families and process for arranging services in private and parochial schools
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Council Member Shahana Hanif inquires about alternatives the DOE is providing to families to ensure legally mandated services are provided, and the measures taken to share information with families needing language access services. John Hammer from the DOE explains the process for students in private and parochial schools.
- The DOE has published comprehensive information on their website about the process to submit a parental notice of intent for the next school year.
- Direct outreach to families will be conducted to inform them about the guidance and help them through the process.
- Families need to inform the DOE by June 1st about their plans for the upcoming school year.
- The DOE emphasizes that they should be partnering directly with families to arrange services, not through schools.
- The new processes are expected to help get services arranged and running over the summer, aiming to have them in place at the start of the school year.
Shahana Hanif
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And then what alternatives is, the DOE providing to families to ensure they're legally mandated services are provided?
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And, what's, what measures are being taken, to share information to families in need of, language access services?
John Hammer
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So I'll I'll jump in here.
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So, you know, specific to the, students in private and parochial schools, I think I think what we we wanna spend a little bit of time talking a little bit about today is is the process moving forward.
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So just just this week, we've published, to our website, comprehensive information for families around the process to submit a parental notice of intent for the next school year.
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And so families have access to that information.
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We've shared that with our non public schools.
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We're gonna be directing doing direct outreach to families, to to inform them of where this guidance lives and to help them through the process.
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And so as they receive that, they're gonna be able to inform us well in advance of June 1st.
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We'll be able to work with them over the summer in order to arrange these services.
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You know, one of the questions you asked earlier was around payments to schools.
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Right?
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The process here is really that families, they need to work with the with the DOE.
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That is how the process is is is established.
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We should be partnering with families to arrange these services directly.
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And while our schools are partners, right, we're we're we're providers are submitting payments and and providers are are billing directly to the DOE.
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Really, payments are not going to schools or should not be go cannot be going to schools.
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That's not the process.
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So so establishing this now and getting this information to families now well in advance of June 1st is gonna give us the opportunity to work with families to get arrange services arranged up and running over the summer.
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Every family of a student in private and pro in private and religious schools, we understand they expect that services are in place at the start of
Claudia Galicia
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school.
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Absolutely.
John Hammer
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In order to do that, we need to know where you're sending your child.
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We need to know if you're gonna continue to enroll your child in in private school.
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We need we need we need that information.
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And so that is why we we need to enforce deadlines and that is why, that that law exists that requires families to inform us by June 1st.
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And so now that we have these processes in place, we feel really confident that we're gonna that this is gonna go very well, for the upcoming school year.