Iowa § 256B.8 Exceptions

Iowa Statutes

§ 256B.8 — Exceptions

Iowa § 256B.8

Title VIIEDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

Ch. 256BSPECIAL EDUCATION

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Iowa Code § 256B.8 (2026).

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1.It is not incumbent upon the school districts to keep a child requiring special education in regular instruction when the child cannot sufficiently profit from the work of the regular classroom, nor to keep a child requiring special education in the special class or instruction for children requiring special education when it is determined by the diagnostic educational team that the child can no longer benefit from the instruction or needs more specialized instruction available in special schools. However, the school district shall count the child requiring special education in the enrollment as provided in sections 256B.9, 257.6, and 273.9 and shall ensure that appropriate educational provisions are made for the child requiring special education.

2.An area education agency director of

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1. It is not incumbent upon the school districts to keep a child requiring special education
in regular instruction when the child cannot sufficiently profit from the work of the regular
classroom, nor to keep a child requiring special education in the special class or instruction
for children requiring special education when it is determined by the diagnostic educational
team that the child can no longer benefit from the instruction or needs more specialized
instruction available in special schools. However, the school district shall count the child
requiring special education in the enrollment as provided in sections 256B.9, 257.6, and 273.9
and shall ensure that appropriate educational provisions are made for the child requiring
special education.
2. An area education agency director of special education may request approval from
the department of education to continue the special education program of a person beyond
the period specified in section 256B.2, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, if the person had an
accident or prolonged illness that resulted in delays in the initiation of or interruptions in
that person’s special education program. Approval may be granted by the department to
continue the special education program of that person for up to three years or until the
person’s twenty-fourth birthday.
3. No provision of this chapter shall be construed to require or compel any person who
is a member of a well-recognized church or religious denomination and whose religious
convictions, in accordance with the tenets or principles of the person’s church or religious
denomination, are opposed to medical or surgical treatment for disease to take or follow a
course of physical therapy, or submit to medical treatment, nor shall any parent or guardian
who is a member of such church or religious denomination and who has such religious
convictions be required to enroll a child in any course or instruction which utilizes medical
or surgical treatment for disease.