Calculating Time in General Education

From the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Decision Making and Placement Summary screen, complete the time fields:

1. Enter the hours and minutes in a school week.  Use 00 when no hours or minutes are indicated.
2. Enter time outside general education.  Time can be entered manually or the tool can calculate total service hours outside of general education. If the Update From Service Time button is utilized, total time from all services being delivered outside of general education from the Services page will be entered here.

Note:  This calculation may not be accurate if you have not indicated Number of Sessions under Classroom Instruction for any of the services added.  A popup window will appear when using the Update from Service Time button cautioning that the time will calculate properly ONLY if the number of sessions was indicated on the Services page.

Note:  All time fields must be completed.  For example, if no time is spent "Outside General Education", hours and minutes must be indicated by a series of zeros (00) to complete the calculation accurately.

3. Utilizing the Calculate button will automatically subtract Total time outside of General Education from Total time in the school week to calculate Total time in General Education.  Alternatively, the Total time in General Education can be entered manually.  In addition a percentage of the day the student is inside general education per day to assist with choosing the correct Special Education Placement code.

4. Choose the correct Age group to produce a dropdown list of LRE Placement Codes/descriptions.