Special Education Services

Stakeholder Information

Destruction of Special Education Records

In compliance with the Georgia Records Act, the Gordon County School District’s records retention schedule, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulations on destruction of data collected, maintained or used in the provision of a free and appropriate public education of students with disabilities in the district’s schools, the Special Education Department announces its intention to destroy special education records during the month of October, 2024.

Records for students who were enrolled in a special education program in the district’s schools who were born before January 1, 1999 will no longer needed for educational purposes.

A student or parent may need these records for Social Security or other reasons. If you, as a former special education student or parent of a former special education student, wish to obtain these records prior to destruction, you should contact the Special Education Records Department at:

Special Education Office
7300 Fairmount Hwy
Calhoun GA, 30701.

Positive identification will be required before the records will be released to the individual.

For more information contact the Special Education Records Office at 706-629-7366, between 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Positive identification will be required before the records will be released to the individual.

Gordon County Schools Public Notice of Private/Home Schools Consultation Stakeholder Meeting for Students with Disabilities

School systems must engage in timely and meaningful consultation with representatives of private schools and with parents about the provision of special education and related services for students attending private or home schools within the school systems’ jurisdiction. The purpose of the meeting is to share information about the District’s responsibility to provide consultation regarding:

  1. The Child Find process and how parentally placed private/homeschool children with disabilities can participate.

  2. The determination of the proportionate share amount of federal funds available to serve parentally placed private/home school children with disabilities, including how that amount was calculated.

  3. The consultation procedures among the Local Education Agency (LEA) and private school representatives and how the process will operate

  4. How, where, and by whom special education services and related services will be provided for parentally placed private/homeschooled children with disabilities, including a discussion of the type of services.

  5. How the LEA will provide a written explanation to private school officials of the reason why the LEA chose not to provide services if the LEA and private school officials disagree.

In accordance with Federal Law (Individual with Disabilities Act 2004), the Gordon County School System will hold a public meeting on:

Thursday, May 25 at 1:00 PM

Special Education Office located at 7320 Fairmount Highway, Building 2 Calhoun, GA 30701

If you have a child with a disability or a suspected disability who attends home school, private school, or you are a private school administrator in Gordon County, you are invited to attend.

For further information and/or to RSVP, please contact Alecia Segursky, Special Education Director, at 706-629-4474 or asegursky@gcbe.org