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Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2019
The Department Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is a new cabinet level agency focused on the well-being of children. The vision is to ensure that "Washington state's children and youth grow up safe and healthy-thriving physically, emotionally and academically, nurtured by family and community." (House Bill 1661) DCYF serves as the…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, State Programs, Federal State Relationship
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2009
This document is intended to assist State Education Agency (SEA) and Lead Agency (LA) staff and technical assistance providers in designing a meaningful evaluation for the State Performance Plan (SPP)/Annual Performance Report (APR) improvement activities. It provides: (1) information about the relevance of evaluation in the context of improvement…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Technical Assistance, Program Improvement, Guidelines
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2006
This directory contains 338 discretionary projects addressing the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that received funds in 2005. It was compiled from 4 volumes separately published by the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY). The Research to Practice Division of…
Descriptors: State Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Disabilities
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2005
This directory contains 355 discretionary projects addressing the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that received funds in 2004. It was compiled from 4 volumes separately published by the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY). The Research to Practice Division of…
Descriptors: State Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Disabilities
West, Jane – 2000
This report, the second in a series of independent analyses by The National Council on Disability on federal enforcement of civil rights laws looks at more than two decades of federal monitoring and enforcement of compliance with Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Separate parts of the report address: (1) development…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation
Gaston, Caroline – 2001
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Policymaker Partnership (PMP) of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education have joined together to consider challenges and opportunities for coordinating special and compensatory education among states, districts, and schools. As part of this effort toward increasing…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Compensatory Education
Kahn, Lynne; Hurth, Joicey; Diefendorf, Martha; Kasprzak, Christina; Lucas, Anne; Ringwalt, Sharon – National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2009
The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC) was charged by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) from 2001-2006 to develop, implement, and evaluate an approach to technical assistance that would result in sustainable systems change in state Early Intervention and Preschool Special…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Special Education, Strategic Planning, Educational Policy