Responsive to this request, specifically related to your request for documents pertaining to training Baltimore Lab School and High Roads Academy staff received in Orton Gillingham, HCPSS has no existing records responsive to this request. Such training would be provided by the non-public to their own staff, and are not records shared with HCPSS.
Lastly, related to your request for data that supports CEPT team members observations regarding results for students placed at the High Roads Academy (Laurel location) and the Baltimore Lab School, Special Education staff indicates HCPSS examines data, at least annually, for each student to determine if they are making progress and if they can be returned to a less restrictive setting. This information, however, is examined per student to make specific IEP decisions about that student and not collectively maintained data. Please note, under the MPIA process, and as advised in the Fourteenth Edition of the Maryland Public Information Act Manual created by Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General, an agency is only obligated to produce existing records and is not required to generate new data or summarize data. This information, along with information that reflects the reason a student requests to be moved based on a lack of progress, is maintained within individual student records, which would require access to and review of individual private student files, which are exempt from disclosure under both FERPA and MPIA GP § 4-313. Additional time would be needed to review and redact available data on returns to home schools.
restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students, we have redacted information that could reveal individual student information from the responsive record, leaving only the count of graduates by year. Staff indicates there are no records of graduates for Baltimore Lab School as the system recently began using this location.