~~“Career:
Career Exploration: Seventh and eighth grade students take classes to explore career interests and self-awareness skills for future job choices. Ninth and tenth grade students are required to take Career Training for soft skill and work skill development. Eleventh and twelve grade students experience on and off campus internships, job shadows, and supported employment.”
“Purpose
This policy establishes the process and procedures for transitioning eligible individuals from institutional care settings onto the Frail and Elderly (FE), Intellectual and Developmental Disability (I/DD), Physical Disability (PD), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) waiver programs. “
“An Institutional Transition moves residents of qualified institutional settings into the community. This process identifies individuals who have expressed their desire to return to the community and provides them with community supports to aid them in maintaining residence in the least restrictive setting of their choice. Institutional Transitions are available if you are eligible for the Frail Elderly (FE), Physical Disability (PD), Brain Injury (BI), or Intellectual/ Developmental Disability (IDD) waiver. Individuals completing an Institutional Transition to a waiver with a current waiting list can bypass the waiver waitlist.”
“The KansasWorks Employer Partner Incentive connects job seekers with disabilities to employers. Employers participating in the Employer Partner Incentive are eligible to receive up to $3,000 per full-time qualified candidate hired ($1,500 for the first 90 days and an additional $1,500 after the first year of full-time employment) and up to $2,000 per part-time qualified candidate hired ($1,000 for the first 90 days and an additional $1,000 after the first year of part-time employment).”
“End-Dependence Kansas (EDK) is a program aimed at helping jobseekers diagnosed with IDD find competitive employment in the community. EDK uses a progressive, educational approach to employment that helps jobseekers develop work skills. Participants receive one-on-one training from employment specialists and participate in job shadows, company tours, and informational interviews to learn more about different work environment to help them find the right match. End-Dependence Kansas is a statewide program aimed at helping 2,000 Kansans with disabilities access employment. It is funded through a Kansas Department for Children and Families grant.”
“Kansas will provide new employment supports to beneficiaries with behavioral health diagnoses and eligible for a 1915(c), either by being on the waitlist or already being enrolled in the 1915(c). This voluntary pilot will be capped at 500 beneficiaries. Services will include pre-vocational support services, supportive employment services, personal assistant services, independent living skills training, assistive technology, and transportation, and are similar to services that could be offered as state plan home and community-based services (HCBS) benefit under section 1915(i) of the Social Security Act (the Act). Included in the pilot is a targeted expansion of Medicaid for individuals on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) who would normally not be eligible for Medicaid without meeting spend-down requirements and these beneficiaries will be eligible for both the pilot services and Medicaid state plan services.“
“The Kansas State Department of Education complies with the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which require the participation of all students in assessments used for accountability purposes.
Students with disabilities are included to the extent possible in grade- and age-appropriate instruction on the content standards; however, assessments must provide adaptations to provide all students the opportunity to show what they have learned. These adaptations are called accommodations.
Accommodations for students with disabilities are tools or procedures that mediate a student’s disability to permit valid assessment without changing what is being measured. For example, a student with low vision may need accommodations for the test to be accessible. In a test of reading, having reading passages read aloud would change what is being measured, so reading passages aloud to a student is not a valid accommodation. The use of a magnifying tool or a large-print version of a test, however, would be an acceptable accommodation.
The Kansas Assessment Program provides numerous accommodations for students with disabilities:
• Accommodations are available for students who are not yet proficient in English.
• The Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) Alternate Assessment System is available for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
Kite Educator Portal allows educators and test administrators to identify supports that are used in the classroom on a regular basis and enter them into a Personal Needs Profile (PNP). Students’ PNPs should be well thought out and created before beginning any type of assessment. For additional information on completing a student’s PNP, refer to the Kite Educator Portal Manual for Test Coordinators.”
“While the Task Force considers all recommendations in Figure 2 (page ES-vi) to be priorities, there were a number of action items that emerged as essential to the implementation of the entire plan, including:
“The KANSASWORKS State Board serves as a review board and change agent empowered with the responsibility of making recommendations to the Governor and to state agencies to align workforce development with the needs of economic development in the state.”
This page has “WIOA Guidance Letters” that can be downloaded for use.
“Categorical aid helps with the cost of implementing Individualized Education Program(IEP)services over and above the regular education that all students are entitled to receive. All expenditures claimed for reimbursement under categorical aid must have been paid from the Local Education Agency (LEA)’s special education funds All categorical aid money requested by the LEA must be deposited in its special education fund”