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Special education regulations: accessible instructional materials, the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard and the written publisher contract for print instructional materials
In force since .
A procurement conditions rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
- Obligation class
- Contract terms
What it requires
- If you are a Rhode Island public agency under the special education regulations, adopt the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and ensure that children with disabilities who need instructional materials in accessible formats receive them in a timely manner, taking all reasonable steps to provide them at the same time as other children receive instructional materials (200-RICR-20-30-6.6(I)(1)).
- If you are a Rhode Island public agency that coordinates with the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC), make any adoption process, procurement contract or other instrument for buying print instructional materials include a written contract with the publisher that either requires the publisher to provide NIMAC, on or before delivery, with electronic files of the materials' contents in NIMAS, or buys materials produced in, or able to be rendered in, specialized formats (200-RICR-20-30-6.6(I)(3)(a)).
- If you are a Rhode Island local educational agency that does not coordinate with NIMAC, give the state education agency an assurance that you will provide instructional materials to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner (200-RICR-20-30-6.6(I)(2)(b)).
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What this law does
Section 6.6(I)(1) of 200-RICR-20-30-6, the Rhode Island Regulations Governing the Education of Children with Disabilities, requires each public agency to adopt the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for providing instructional materials to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner, and to ensure that children with disabilities who need instructional materials in accessible formats receive them in a timely manner.
Section 6.6(I)(3)(a) requires each public agency that chooses to coordinate with the National Instructional Materials Access Center, as part of any print instructional materials adoption process, procurement contract or other practice or instrument used for purchase, to enter into a written contract with the publisher that either requires the publisher to provide the center, on or before delivery, with electronic files of the materials' contents using that standard, or purchases materials produced in, or able to be rendered in, specialized formats.
Under section 6.6(I)(2), a local educational agency need not coordinate with the center, but one that does not must assure the state education agency that it will provide instructional materials to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner. The Part was adopted effective , and refiled effective with no change to its text.
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