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Ortiz, Kelsey; Rice, Mary F.; Deschaine, Mark E.; Lancaster, Sean – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2020
The rapid emergence and authorization of statewide, fully online, virtual charter schools has resulted in the need for states to identify potentially inequitable effects of disability service funding policies. This article describes state funding policies and the designation of responsibilities regarding the provision of special education services…
Descriptors: Special Education, Virtual Schools, Student Needs, Students with Disabilities
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Kolbe, Tammy – National Education Policy Center, 2019
Today's challenges for special education funding are rooted in a complex regulatory and policy environment that reflects little forethought about who can and will pay special education costs. Despite the fact that states and school districts are legally required to ensure a free and appropriate public education to students with disabilities, the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Special Education, Federal Aid
Griffith, Michael – Education Commission of the States, 2015
This year is the 40th anniversary of the passage of Public Law 94-142--most commonly known as the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The law not only changed the way that students with disabilities are educated in this country, it also fundamentally changed the way that states fund their K-12 education programs. This ECS…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Funding Formulas, Educational Policy, Educational Change
State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2010
This annual report provides a national perspective on Title II-D for federal fiscal year (FY) 2008 (2008-09 school year), as well as emergent trends based on data from the past seven years. Title II-D is the only federal education program with funds explicitly targeted to support state and local effective uses of educational technology in the …
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technological Literacy, Educational Trends, Program Implementation
Gaddy, Barbara; McNulty, Brian; Waters, Tim – 2002
This policy brief on the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is based on March 2002, discussions involving chief state school officers and state directors of special education from five Western states and staff of Western educational research and policy organizations. It focuses on those issues that are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Perry, Deborah F. – NEC*TAS Notes, 1991
This paper describes options available to states for distributing funds for preschool education programs in light of the mandate of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that states must provide a free public education to children with disabilities, age 3 through 5 years. It begins with a general discussion of the different types of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation