For each student with an IEP, the current or most recent IEP is the offer of free appropriate public education (FAPE). The district will determine the programs and/or services that are able to be provided given Governor Whitmer’s Executive Order 2020-35. The Continuity of Learning plan will be in effect for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.

Sault Area Public Schools will implement a Student’s IEP or Section 504 Plan consistent with the District’s Continuity of Learning Plan in good faith, and to the extent that it is safe, practicable, reasonable given the circumstances, and within applicable state and federal guidance and restrictions during the public health emergency and in order to meet the requirements of IDEA and MARSE. In the event a student's IEP or 504 plan is not able to be implemented as written, a Student Level Contingency Learning Plan will be developed. 

An Individualized Contingency Learning Plan outlines implementation and was developed considering the Governor’s Executive Order, public health recommendations, the District’s Continuity of Learning Plan, the student’s IEP or 504 Plan, availability of technology, student needs under the current circumstances, and parent comments and concerns.

The Student Level Contingency Learning Plan will adhere to the following:

• Staff will consider accessibility, including accommodations and modifications
• Quality instruction will be at the center of individual contingency learning plans
• All Documented efforts will be focused, consistent, detailed and demonstrates good faith effort to provide programs and/or services to students with an IEP accommodations and modifications.