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Joseph A. Hogan – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) allows alternate pathways for school districts to identify and classify students with a specific learning disability (SLD). Response to Intervention (RtI) is one of the frameworks schools can use when eliminating the use of the discrepancy model. The premise of RtI posits that…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Classification
Minnesota Department of Education, 2023
The purpose of this document is to provide information and resources on special education for charter schools and charter school authorizers. The information in this report should not be relied upon as a comprehensive or definitive response to specific legal situations involving special education compliance. This report includes a: (1) Minnesota…
Descriptors: Special Education, Charter Schools, School Administration, Planning
Katherine Pickard; Sarah R. Edmunds; Quentin Wedderburn; Kerri Wikel; Jennifer Buster; Melissa Maye – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2024
In the autism field, there is increasing interest in translating evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into systems that serve young autistic children and their families. Public Early Intervention systems have been a focal point of research-based implementation efforts given that these systems are federally mandated to provide services to children…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Evidence Based Practice, Young Children, Early Intervention
Lisa N. Butterworth; Miranda L. Denham; Linda L. Hestenes – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2024
Disproportionality and inequity exist in the special education services that U.S. children receive based on factors such as race, geographic location, and resources of the school system. Overrepresentation and underrepresentation are both prevalent issues and can vary by region or school district and are likely due to multiple factors. Although…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Individualized Education Programs, Students with Disabilities, Critical Race Theory
Deborah L. Rooks-Ellis; Gretchen Scheibel; Craig Mason; Shihfen Tu – Journal of Early Intervention, 2024
This article describes the development and use of a first of its kind statewide implementation of an adapted Early Start Denver Model (ESDM). Supported by a collaborative partnership between stakeholders that included families, state agencies, and a state university, the intervention was implemented within the existing framework of a northeastern…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Behavior Modification, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
National 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
Carrie Crow Brenner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Through a lens of cultural capital, this dissertation explored the complex implementation of Section 504 policy in public high schools, focused on how school-level characteristics and the state-level litigious educational environment impact the qualifying rates of 504 plans. This study of the 2017-18 school year employed data from national…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Public Schools, High Schools
Krystle Merry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation research is an exploratory multiple-case study of special education transition program structures in three virtual public charter schools in a southern state in the United States. Virtual public charter schools are extensions of public school systems or districts that are required to comply with state and federal-mandated special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Transitional Programs, Virtual Schools, Public Schools
Rawn Boulden; Emily Goodman-Scott – Professional School Counseling, 2024
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the School Counselor 504 Activities Scale, a practical tool to assess how often school counselors engage in various ASCA recommended and non-recommended duties. Utilizing a sample of 379 practicing school counselors, this process resulted in two subscales: (a) Collaboration, Advocacy, and…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Advocacy, Federal Legislation
Mollie Romano; Melissa Schnurr; Erin Elizabeth Barton; Juliann Woods; Cindy Weigel – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
Using an implementation science framework, this study examines the impact of a multicomponent professional development (PD) approach implemented by internal peer coaches on early intervention providers' use of Family Guided Routines-Based Intervention. The experimental study used a single-case multiple baseline design across participants,…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Coaching (Performance), Professional Development, Educational Legislation
Bricker, Diane D.; Felimban, Huda S.; Lin, Fang Yu; Stegenga, Sondra M.; Storie, Sloan O'Malley – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
Collaboration with caregivers and between disciplines and agencies is a recommended practice in the field of early intervention and early childhood special education (EI/ECSE) as well as required by federal legislation for young children with disabilities. Review of relevant literature suggests that collaboration entails a complex set of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
Hickman, Barbara J. – Journal of Education, 2022
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has undergone revisions roughly every 5 years since inception. Despite these modifications, the academic and social outcomes for students with disabilities lag behind those of their regular education peers. Results-Driven Accountability (RDA) was initiated to improve special education outcomes and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Kade R. Downs – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current implementation fidelity narrative in education is one written in federal legislation (e.g., ESSA, 2015; IDEA, 2004) and peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Chu et al., 2020; Noell et al., 2014). While teachers represent a significant force for the implementation of evidence-based practices in schools, their experiences and wisdom are often…
Descriptors: General Education, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Master Teachers
Alba Milagros Lugo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates that special education students receive free appropriate public education instruction in the least restrictive environment. Special education students often receive a disproportionate number of suspensions in schools. It is the disproportionate number of suspensions received by…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities
Zirkel, Perry A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
This article delineates the four successive dimensions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) central obligation of "free appropriation public education" that the courts have developed thus far: (a) procedural, (b) substantive, (c) incomplete implementation of the last Individualized Education Program (IEP), and (d)…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities