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New Data Accountability Center

The new Data Accountability Center (DAC) website provides public access to data about children and youth with disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - Part B and C; technical assistance (TA) materials to support the collection, analysis and reporting of IDEA data; and the forms and spreadsheets used for collection.  DAC is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education to provide information and TA to improve the quality of all state-reported data required by the IDEA.
IDEAdata.org
April 2009

Response to Intervention as It Relates to Early Intervening Services

This document is a summary of a two-day OSEP-sponsored symposium held October 30-31, 2006, by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education. It presents an overview of the way in which RTI and EIS intersect and provides legislative background, a description of RTI, and a summary of barriers and recommendations generated by the participants at the symposium.
The Center on Instruction and NASDSE
February 2008

28th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the IDEA Released

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),  reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the provision of a free appropriate public education to all children with disabilities and the provision of early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities. The two volumes of the 28th Annual Report contain information on the children and students being served under IDEA, state-level data profiles, and extensive tables of state-reported data.
United States Department of Education
January 2009

Supreme Court to Weigh IDEA Case

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to add an special education case to its docket for this term. In this case, the justices will return to an issue they deadlocked over in their last term: whether parents in a special education dispute with a school district may be reimbursed for "unilaterally" placing their child in a private school when that child has never received special education services from the district.
Education Week
January 2009

New Series Highlights Center for Studying Disability Policy Research

The Center for Studying Disability Policy at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., announced a new bimonthly lunchtime seminar series aimed at providing policymakers and others with an opportunity to hear about the latest disability policy research findings. Disability experts from the center will present recently released findings and lead discussions about their policy implications.
Mathematica Policy Research
July 2008

Resources from the Response to Intervention (RTI) Summit

Check out these resources compiled by the new National Center on Response to Intervention for its RTI Summit. The RTI Summit provided training, information, and planning time for educational teams of key state education leaders and selected state affiliate organizations to learn about components and models of RTI and to scale up comprehensive models of RTI in their schools and districts. It also helped states develop a state plan for implementing RTI and provided information about accessing federal and state resources to assist with that implementation.
National Center on Response to Intervention
March 2008

New from NICHCY: Discipline in Detail

The 1997 Amendments to IDEA marked the first time that specific discipline procedures were included in the law. Those discipline procedures addressed how public agencies could respond to behavioral infractions of children with disabilities. They were also rather complicated. You'll be pleased to hear that those procedures have been revised in the 2004 Amendments to IDEA and that disciplinary processes have been streamlined. They are still complicated, so we've split the discussion into separate sections of more digestable length.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
March 2009

New and Updated Publications from NICHCY!

NICHCY has maintained a core of key publications for many years, updating them every time our nation's special education law is reauthorized or significant changes occur in the field. Here are the latest to get complete facelifts so they are not only shiny-new again but are also consistent with the requirements of IDEA 2004 and its regulations.

NICHCY/NDC
May 2009

Education and the Next President: A Live Debate

“Education and the Next President,” a live debate taking place at Teachers College, Columbia University, between Linda Darling-Hammond, education adviser to Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Lisa Graham Keegan, education adviser to Republican nominee John McCain.
Edweek
October 2008


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