Promotion Guidelines for Students with Disabilities

Beginning September 1, 2002 the Madison school district implemented a new policy regarding the promotion of students from 4th to 5th grade and from 8th to 9th grade. Information regarding this new policy and the criteria for promotion was distributed previously through letters to parents, brochures in English, Spanish and Hmong, and through information on the district's website (http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/topics/promotion/).

The Board of Education approved recommendations for promotion criteria for students with disabilities that will enable them to continue to be educated with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate. The promotion criteria allow for the promotion of students with disabilities to be governed either by the MMSD Promotion Policy or by the student's Individualized Education Program (IEP). The decision regarding the basis of promotion is made by the student's IEP team. Parents, as IEP team participants, contribute to this IEP team decision.

For more information about how the MMSD promotion policy applies to students with disabilities, please contact your principal or one of the special education teachers at your school.

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