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Louisiana Department of Education, 2020
This guide was developed by the Louisiana Department of Education to help parents navigate the complex system that oversees special education in Louisiana's public schools. Each school year, local education agencies (LEAs) are required to provide parents a copy of the procedural safeguards. These safeguards are used to inform parents of the…
Descriptors: Special Education, Public Schools, Student Rights, Students with Disabilities
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
Educators in the Chula Vista Elementary School District determined what kind of instruction students needed through a "response to intervention" (RTI) process, which provides extra help to struggling students with an aim of reducing the number of referrals to special education. As RTI catches on throughout the country, the district is on…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Districts, Early Intervention, Formative Evaluation
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Abedi, Jamal – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2009
English language learners with disabilities (ELLWD) face many challenges in their academic career. Learning a new language and coping with their disabilities create obstacles in their academic progress. Variables relegating accessibility of assessments for students with disabilities and ELL students may seriously hinder the academic performance of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Second Language Learning, Disabilities, Classification
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Cherkes-Julkowski, Miriam – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) firmly insists that performance analyses use disaggregated scores. Disaggregation, according to NCLB, involves measuring and reporting achievement for separate subgroups of children so that achievement problems in any one subgroup are not disguised when averaged or aggregated with higher achieving children in…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, School Personnel