During the 2023 Legislative Session, the Legislature considered House Bill (HB) 1479, a measure which would have prohibited isolation and further restricted restraint in public schools. While the bill did not pass, the Legislature provided the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) with designated state funds to begin actualizing…

The Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (MSTED) is testing the effectiveness of subsidized employment for individuals enrolled in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), Minnesota's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, who were unable to find employment after participating in the state's existing…

The U.S. Department of Education's Policy to Performance project was funded in 2009 to build the capacity of state adult basic education (ABE) staff to develop and implement policies and practices that would support an ABE transition system. Policy to Performance states were selected though a competitive process. State adult education directors…

The "Policy to Performance Toolkit" is designed to provide state adult education staff and key stakeholders with guidance and tools to use in developing, implementing, and monitoring state policies and their associated practices that support an effective state adult basic education (ABE) to postsecondary education and training transition…

This report presents early results from a rigorous evaluation of a performance-based scholarship program that was implemented at three community colleges in Ohio during the 2008-2009 academic year. The program in Ohio that is the subject of this report is part of MDRC's national Performance-Based Scholarship (PBS) Demonstration, which was launched…

This report provides initial results of Illinois' Shifting Gears Initiative that operated between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2009. This mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) evaluation sought to accomplish three goals: (1) to assess program and student outcomes for two models (adult education and developmental education) for two target groups…

The document contains profile sheets on seven programs serving handicapped preschoolers under the auspices of the Arizona Department of Education. Each sheet contains information on the project title, director, address, contact person, and a brief description. Sheets are provided on programs which include the Pendergast Developmental Preschool,…

Title IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act calls for maintenance of a state "innovative-exemplary program" to work with local education agencies in the development and dissemination of new educational projects. To date, over 126 Kansas districts have been involved in this program. This booklet discusses a number of…

Listed are approximately 63 programs for exceptional children in North Carolina schools recommended for visitation by school personnel developing local programs. Programs are listed for the educable mentally retarded, the emotionally disturbed or learning disabled, gifted and talented, hearing impaired, physically handicapped, speech impaired,…

The document contains 32 profile sheets describing projects serving handicapped students under the auspices of the Arizona Department of Education. Information sheets include the program title, director's name, address, phone number, and a brief description of the program. Among the programs covered are the following: Arizona Child Find Project,…

Answers questions about Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP) projects concerning such topics as success rate of projects going before the JDRP, appeal procedures, and accepted level of statistical significance. (CT)

Reports on a multisource identification and an in-depth analysis of exemplary state agency rehabilitation counselors so as to describe the characteristics associated with being exemplary. Results indicate no differences between the two types of rehabilitation counselors -- therapeutic and case manager -- on-job satisfaction or on-task demands.…

Presented is the final report of the Service Integration Project, a North Carolina demonstration project to facilitate collaboration of local programs particularly those sponsored by the Developmental Disabilities program and the Head Start program. Individual chapters deal with the following topics: overview of service integration; the human…

The Title III program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, called PACE (Projects to Advance Creativity in Education), allots 15% of the funds allocated to projects dealing with the special educational needs of handicapped children. Presented are some effects of the services supported by Title III funds which assist local districts in…

Presents analysis of guidance models in the United States. Commends 24 states in their initial attempts at model development in the personal/social domains. States that the most significant gap across models is in attention to ethnic and cultural developmental issues. Recommends authors of programs be more specific so that developmental guidance…