Pupils with exceptional needs: individualized education programs.

Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those individuals with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law requires a local educational agency to initiate and conduct meetings for the purposes of developing, reviewing, and revising the individualized education program of each individual with exceptional needs. Existing law requires a local educational agency to give a parent or guardian a copy of the individualized education program, at no cost to the parent or…