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K.A.R. 91-40-1
The Kansas Special Education Process Handbook, which the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) publishes chapter by chapter, reprints K.A.R. 91-40-1 3 times, in Chapter 1: Parent Rights in Special Education (Procedural Safeguards) and Chapter 3: Initial Evaluation and Eligibility. What follows is each reprint, quoted verbatim from the captured chapters (tools/packets/kansas-packet.txt), including the PDF text layer's line-wrap artifacts, which are reproduced rather than corrected. Where a reprint crosses a page, the quotation is split at the page break rather than bridged across the running head. The handbook reprints the parts of a section a chapter needs, so a reprint may be an excerpt: this is the handbook's text, not the section as the state publishes it, which is not captured here. All dates on this page are quoted from the source, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
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Printed in: Chapter 1: Parent Rights in Special Education (Procedural Safeguards)
Heading, as printed: "K.A.R. 91-40-1. Definitions."
"(l) ‘‘Consent’’ means that all of the following conditions are met:"
"(1) A parent has been fully informed of all information relevant to the activity for which consent is sought, in the parent’s native language or other mode of communication."
"(2) A parent understands and agrees in writing to the carrying out of the activity for which consent is sought, and the consent describes that activity and lists the records, if any, that will be released and to whom."
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"(3) A parent understands the following:"
"(A) The granting of consent is voluntary on the part of the parent and may be revoked at any time."
"(B) If the parent revokes consent, the revocation is not retroactive and does not negate an action that has occurred after the consent was given and before the consent was revoked"
"(C) The parent may revoke consent in writing for the continued provision of a particular service or placement only if the child's IEP team certifies in writing that the child does not need the particular service or placement for which consent is being revoked in order to receive a free appropriate public education."
Printed in: Chapter 3: Initial Evaluation and Eligibility
Heading, as printed: "K.A.R. 91-40-1. Definitions."
"(l) ‘‘Consent’’ means that all of the following conditions are met:"
"(1) A parent has been fully informed of all information relevant to the activity for which consent is sought, in the parent’s native language or other mode of communication."
"(2) A parent understands and agrees in writing to the carrying out of the activity for which consent is sought, and the consent describes that activity and lists the records, if any, that will be released and to whom."
"(3) A parent understands the following:"
"(A) The granting of consent is voluntary on the part of the parent and may be revoked at any time."
"(B) If the parent revokes consent, the revocation is not retroactive and does not negate an action that has occurred after the consent was given and before the consent was revoked"
"(C) The parent may revoke consent in writing for the continued provision of a particular service or placement only if the child's IEP team certifies in writing that the child does not need the particular service or placement for which consent is being revoked in order to receive a free appropriate public education."
Printed in: Chapter 3: Initial Evaluation and Eligibility
Heading, as printed: "K.A.R. 91-40-1. Definitions."
"(k) "Child with a disability" means the following:"
"(1) A child evaluated as having mental retardation, a hearing impairment including deafness, a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment including blindness, emotional disturbance, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, any other health impairment, a specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services; and"
"(2) for children ages three through nine, a child who is experiencing developmental delays and, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services."
"(w) "Exceptional children" means children with disabilities and gifted children."
"(kkk) “Special education” means the following:"
"(1) Specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of an exceptional child, including the following:"
"(A) Instruction conducted in the classroom, in the home, in hospitals and institutions, and in other settings; and"
"(B) instruction in physical education;"
"(2) paraeducator services, speech-language pathology services, and any other related service, if the service consists of specially designed instruction to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability;"
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"(3) occupational or physical therapy and interpreter services for deaf children if, without any of these services, a child would have to be educated in a more restrictive environment;"
"(4) travel training; and"
"(5) vocational education."
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Source
Kansas Special Education Process Handbook, Chapter 1: Parent Rights in Special Education (Procedural Safeguards) (PDF), ksde.gov; page footers read 6/12/26; retrieved Aug 29, 2026.
Kansas Special Education Process Handbook, Chapter 3: Initial Evaluation and Eligibility (PDF), ksde.gov; page footers read 6/12/26; retrieved Aug 29, 2026.
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Sep 30, 2026 · Record created. Built by tools/render-citations.py from tools/packets/kansas-packet.txt (capture of Aug 29, 2026): one record per K.S.A. or K.A.R. section the handbook's chapters reprint under a heading line of their own, carrying every reprint of that section across the captured chapters, in document order. Source 3 of that packet, a 2018 mirror of the whole handbook, is not used: it carries wording KSDE has since rewritten. Text is quoted, not summarized. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed 2026-10-01. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.