"Empowering Every Learner, Transforming Futures"

The Carmel Unified School District is dedicated to meeting the needs of all students within the district.  All students identified as eligible for special education services between the ages of three and 21, who live within the district boundaries, are provided educational opportunities within the school district, within the Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA), or in rare cases, outside the District/SELPA. 

Once a child is eligible for special education, an Individualized Education Program (IEP) is crafted annually for each of our eligible students to ensure that each child is provided a free appropriate education designed and tailored to meet their needs in the lease restrictive environment (LRE).  The school district is committed to ensuring students with disabilities are educated alongside their peers without disabilities as much as possible in the LRE.  

The district employs educational professionals who are knowledgeable and dedicated to provide for the needs of the student who is eligible as having an educational disability.  Special Education Services include the following:

Educational Specialist

School Psychologists

Board Certificated Behavior Analyst

Behavior Specialist

Behavior Intervention Paraeducators

Special Education Teachers

Speech/Language Pathologists

Occupational Therapists

Adapted PE 

School-based Mental Health Clinicians

School Nurse 

Instructional Aides

Bus Attendants 

Parent/Child Rights / Derechos de los padres/niños
MCOE SELPA Procedural Safeguards for Parents and Children with IEPs

Collaboration and partnerships with Monterey County Office of Education Special Education Department and Services (Monterey County SELPA), Monterey County Behavioral Health, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, and Pacific Grove Unified School District.

Monterey County Office of Education, Special Education Local Plan:  Click Here

The Monterey County SELPA Local Plan will be made available for public inspection in the SELPA office located at 901 Blanco Circle, West Campus Room 17, Salinas, CA 93901 during normal business hours.  

General Information about the Special Education Local Plan Area: Local Plan, as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Act to meet the needs of students with disabilities for special education and related services, can be found on the CDE website.

SELPA Administrators of California also provides information on Understanding the Local Plan.

Information about Restraint and Seclusion Data

Assembly Bill (AB) 2657 requires the California Department of Education to collect data regarding restraint and seclusion.  Here is link for information related to this data: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/rsdinfo.asp