504 Blog 5/4/2021

504 student leaves the district but is still in your portfolio. 
WHY?!

All those red circles and squares shouting DUE! DUE! DUE! but the student has left the district! Why?
All in the hopes the student will return, and it’ll be noted s/he/they were on a 504 plan.

Synergy continues to carry a student that has left/been dropped through the remaining school year. Unfortunately, that means that student continues to show in the portfolio (in parenthesis to let you know the student is gone) with red ‘due’ circles and squares showing.

You can ignore all those red symbols and ignore students in parenthesis in your portfolio
or
You can ‘hide’ them by choosing Active only in Synergy (up in the right corner by your name) but then you have to remember to change it back after viewing your portfolio.

By the start of next school year, that student will be gone from your portfolio (as long as they haven’t return).

Exiting a student from 504 Services –

1. Team to find student ineligible:
   1. Notify me to move student to 3 yr re-eval process
   2. Hold a team meeting (including parents) to find student ineligible (mild/mod).
   3. No need to fill in the accommodations section
   4. Send meeting packet & have plan checked
   5. Synergy will ask you Y/N exit from 504 process once you finalize the Eligibility section.
   6. Say Y and it’s done.
2. Parents ask to terminate the plan – student is still eligible for a plan
   1. This is a revocation
   2. Parent sends you a letter of revocation, signed
      1. It must include the wording “We are revoking all 504 services”
   3. Scan/send to Denise Sevigny
   4. I’ll upload letter and remove student from the SE 504 process

Eligible but no plan (or accommodations)

1. Notify me to move student to 3 yr re-eval mode
2. Fill in all sections BUT in accommodations write, eligible but no plan/accommodations at this time
3. Send meeting packet & have plan checked
4. Continue to monitor student annually
5. If you already established ‘eligible but no plan’ in previous 3 yr and are renewing with same status, doing a renewal and writing in accommodations ‘eligible but no plan/accommodations’ works