The guidance reaffirms that when a child is placed in a private school, a charter school, a head-start program or any other entity by the school district, the child and parents/guardians/other education rights holders retain all IDEA’s Protections, including disciplinary procedures.^[1] The school district has the responsibility to ensure that these children and their parents/guardians/other education rights holders are afforded their procedural and substantive rights. Moreover, for children in a public charter school, which is not a public school within a local school district, the state has the duty to ensure that they are afforded their full rights under the IDEA. 

1. 34 C.F.R. § 300.146(c).[↩]