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Leander ISD seeks Board authority to request TEA waiver for remote homebound instruction for one student
Summary
Assistant Superintendent Paige Collier asked the Board to authorize administration to seek a TEA waiver to provide remote homebound instruction and count attendance for one medically affected student who cannot receive in-person homebound services.
Leander ISD’s agenda packet included a request from Assistant Superintendent of Special Programs Paige Collier for Board permission to pursue a Texas Education Agency waiver to allow remote homebound instruction for one student whose medical condition prevents in-person services. The packet sets out the statutory criteria for homebound placements and explains that the district will submit an individual waiver to TEA so the student’s remote instruction can generate attendance days eligible for homebound funding under 4.7.2.5 Homebound Funding and Homebound Documentation Requirements.
The background material lists the required criteria for homebound placement: ARD or Section 504 determination of eligibility, expectation of at least four weeks confinement, and physician documentation of the medical condition. The packet recommends the Board allow administration to seek the waiver and to count the student as in attendance when remote instruction is provided; the provided materials do not record whether the Board approved the request at the September 5 meeting.
The request is narrowly focused on an individual waiver; the agenda notes that the waiver will be for one student and ties the requested authority to funding-count provisions in board guidance and TEA rules.
