• An ARD Committee has determined TEP placement is warranted.
• Student has been previously placed full time or nearly full time in a special education program.
• A comprehensive behavior management plan with revisions must be in place prior to referral to the Therapeutic Education Program.
• A reasonable attempt to exhaust all outside, non-educational services must be demonstrated.
• Student has been determined eligible for special education services as a result of behavioral, psychiatric, and/or specific learning challenges. This excludes socially maladjusted behaviors, except in those cases where a socially maladjusted student also has an emotional disturbance
• Student has Individualized Education Program that documents need for a placement that is more restrictive in the continuum of services.

1. No incidence of physical aggression toward peers or adults for 90 days.
2. No leaving assigned area/ building for 90 days.
3. No threats to cause bodily harm /terroristic threats 90 days.
4. Achieve Gold Day 10 or Platinum Level status.