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Download full textNational Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd, 2023
The State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) is an important tool for states to assess local education agency (LEA) implementation of IDEA. However, reviewing LEA performance on the SPP/APR indicators must not be the only tool. This Fast Five introduces five factors (plus one!) other than the SPP/APR indicators that states should…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Hawes, Kathryn; Johnson, Amy; Duina, Angela Atkinson – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2020
In response to requirements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Maine enacted a rule requiring all schools to have a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) in place by 2012 for a general education, pre-referral system of student support. The purpose of this system, generally termed Response to Intervention (RtI) by…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Positive Behavior Supports, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
About 13 percent of children aged 3 through 21 enrolled in public schools received special education services in school year 2015-16, and about 3 percent of children from birth through age 2 received special education services. Concerns about the difficulties identifying and evaluating children for special education have been raised by the media,…
Descriptors: Special Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Disability Identification
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Direct linkZirkel, Perry A. – Journal of Special Education, 2017
Exemplifying the insufficient treatment of legal issues in refereed journals in special education and related fields, the limited legal coverage of functional behavioral assessments (FBAs) and behavior intervention plans (BIPs) tends to view the applicable case law through normative lenses. This skewed view characterizes the case law as requiring…
Descriptors: State Legislation, State Policy, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Positive Behavior Supports
Cronin, Annette R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The intention of this study was to examine three factors regarding the implementation of the Response to Intervention (RtI) model. First, the study discovered what professional development opportunities were afforded to administrators and certified faculty to support the implementation of the RtI model within schools that make AYP and those that…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Professional Development, Faculty Development
Danaher, Joan; Goode, Sue; Lazara, Alex – National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2010
"Part C Updates" is a compilation of information on various aspects of the Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities (Part C) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This is the eleventh volume in a series of compilations, which included two editions of Part H Updates, the former name of the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Early Intervention, Poverty, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Giles, David, Ed. – Education Law Center, 2008
This manual is designed to help advocates, including parents, obtain special education for children with disabilities residing in New Jersey. It explains the requirements of the federal statute governing special education--the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)--and the federal regulations implementing IDEA, as well as the state…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Civil Rights, Laws, Disabilities
Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2009
Public schools must make available special education and related services to all IDEA-eligible (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) students with disabilities beginning at age three and through age 18. Services to students, ages 19, 20, and 21, are permissive. That means the decision to serve 19, 20 and 21-year-old students is determined…
Descriptors: Accountability, Staff Development, Special Education, Public Education
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of Special Education. – 1994
Following a 5-year planning and development cycle, Illinois has completed its first year of full implementation of a statewide, comprehensive, coordinated system of early intervention services for eligible infants and toddlers and their families under provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Among accomplishments noted…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Early Intervention
Boylan, Ellen – Education Law Center, 2004
To be both fair and effective, student discipline law and policy must balance two separate rights of students: the constitutional right to a public education, and the right to a safe and orderly learning environment. Procedures and laws to protect students from arbitrary and wrongful discipline are necessary, as are procedures and laws to allow…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Discipline, Disabilities, Parents
