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K.A.R. 91-40-17
The Kansas Special Education Process Handbook, which the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) publishes chapter by chapter, reprints K.A.R. 91-40-17 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. 91-40-17. IEP team meetings and participants."
"(a) Each agency shall take steps to ensure that one or both of the parents of an exceptional child are present at each IEP meeting or are afforded the opportunity to participate. These steps shall include the following:"
"(1) Scheduling each meeting at a mutually agreed-upon time and place and informing the parents of the information specified in subsection"
"(b) of this regulation;"
"(2) except as otherwise provided in K.A.R. 91-40-37, providing written notice, in conformance with subsection (b) of this regulation, to the parents of any IEP team meeting at least 10 days in advance of the meeting."
"(b) The notice required in subsection (a) of this regulation shall meet the following requirements:"
"(1) The notice shall indicate the purpose, time, and location of the IEP team meeting and the titles or positions of the persons who will attend on behalf of the agency, including, if appropriate, any other agency invited to send a representative to discuss needed transition services."
"(2) If the meeting is for a child who has been receiving special education services under the infant and toddler provisions of the federal law but is now transitioning to the provisions for older children, the notice shall inform the parents that they may require that a representative of the infant and toddler program be invited to attend the initial IEP team meeting to assist with the smooth transition of services."
"(3) The notice shall indicate the following information, if a purpose is to consider postsecondary goals and transition services for the child:"
"(A) The agency will invite the parents’ child to attend."
"(B) One of the purposes of the meeting will be to consider the postsecondary goals and needed transition services for the student."
"(4) The parents have the right to invite to the IEP team meeting individuals whom the parents believe to have knowledge or special expertise about their child."
"(c) If neither parent of an exceptional child can be physically present for an IEP team meeting for the child, the agency shall attempt other measures to ensure parental participation, including individual or conference telephone calls."
Printed in: Chapter 1: Parent Rights in Special Education (Procedural Safeguards)
Heading, as printed: "K.A.R. 91-40-17. IEP team meetings and participants."
"(a) Each agency shall take steps to ensure that one or both of the parents of an exceptional child are present at each IEP meeting or are afforded the opportunity to participate. These steps shall include the following:"
"(1) Scheduling each meeting at a mutually agreed-upon time and place and informing the parents of the information specified in subsection"
"(b) of this regulation;"
"(2) except as otherwise provided in K.A.R. 91-40-37, providing written notice, in conformance with subsection (b) of this regulation, to the parents of any IEP team meeting at least 10 days in advance of the meeting."
"(b) The notice required in subsection (a) of this regulation shall meet the following requirements:"
"(1) The notice shall indicate the purpose, time, and location of the IEP team meeting and the titles or positions of the persons who will attend on behalf of the agency, including, if appropriate, any other agency invited to send a representative to discuss needed transition services."
"(2) If the meeting is for a child who has been receiving special education services under the infant and toddler provisions of the federal law but is now transitioning to the provisions for older children, the notice shall inform the parents that they may require that a representative of the infant and toddler program be invited to attend the initial IEP team meeting to assist with the smooth transition of services."
"(3) The notice shall indicate the following information, if a purpose is to consider postsecondary goals and transition services for the child:"
"(A) The agency will invite the parents’ child to attend."
"(B) One of the purposes of the meeting will be to consider the postsecondary goals and needed transition services for the student."
"(4) The parents have the right to invite to the IEP team meeting individuals whom the parents believe to have knowledge or special expertise about their child."
"(e) (1) An agency may conduct an IEP team meeting without parental participation if the agency, despite repeated attempts, has been unable to contact the parent or to convince the parent to participate."
"(2) If an agency conducts an IEP team meeting without parental participation, the agency shall have a record of the attempts that the agency made to contact the parent to provide notice of the meeting and to secure the parent's participation. The record shall include at least two of the following:"
"(A) Detailed records of telephone calls made or attempted, including the date, time, and person making the calls and the results of the calls;"
"(B) detailed records of visits made to the parent's home or homes, including the date, time, and person making the visit and the results of the visit;"
"(C) copies of correspondence sent to the parent and any responses received; and"
"(D) detailed records of any other method attempted to contact the parent and the results of that attempt."
Printed in: Chapter 3: Initial Evaluation and Eligibility
Heading, as printed: "K.A.R. 91-40-17. IEP team meetings and participants."
"(e) (1) An agency may conduct an IEP team meeting without parental participation if the agency, despite repeated attempts, has been unable to contact the parent or to convince the parent to participate."
"(2) If an agency conducts an IEP team meeting without parental participation, the agency shall have a record of the attempts that the agency made to contact the parent to provide notice of the meeting and to secure the parent's participation. The record shall include at least two of the following:"
"(A) Detailed records of telephone calls made or attempted, including the date, time, and person making the calls and the results of the calls;"
"(B) detailed records of visits made to the parent's home or homes, including the date, time, and person making the visit and the results of the visit;"
"(C) copies of correspondence sent to the parent and any responses receive"
"(D) detailed records of any other method attempted to contact the parent and the results of that attempt."
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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.