• Embed Doc
  • Copy Link
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
IV. POLICIES
State Improvement and Monitoring The Comprehensive Planning Process for theIDEA Part D National Activities Program:Challenge and Opportunity The Office of Special Education Programs’National Assessment Program
 
State Improvement andMonitoring
he Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has designedits Continuous Improvement Monitoring Process to supportthe central themes of the Individuals with Disabilities EducationAct (IDEA) Amendments of 1997: improved results for childrenwith disabilities, parent involvement, and accountability.
1
OSEPhas been working with States, parents, and other advocates toshape OSEP’s accountability work in a way that drives andsupports improved results for infants, toddlers, children, andyouth with disabilities without sacrificing any effectiveness inensuring that the individual rights of children with disabilities andtheir families are protected.
 T
OSEP has designed and implemented its ContinuousImprovement Monitoring Process around the following criticalthemes:
 Continuity.
An effective accountability system must becontinuous rather than episodic, it must be clearly linked tosystemic change, and it must integrate self-assessment andcontinuous feedback and response.
1
In the IDEA Amendments of 1997, Congress clearly defined the purposes of IDEA:(A) to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a freeappropriate public education that emphasizes special education and relatedservices designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them foremployment and independent living; (B) to ensure that the rights of childrenwith disabilities and parents of such children are protected; and (C) to assistStates, localities, educational service agencies, and Federal agencies toprovide for the education of all children with disabilities;to assist States in the implementation of a statewide, comprehensive,coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency system of early interventionservices for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families;to ensure that educators and parents have the necessary tools to improveeducational results for children with disabilities by supporting systemic-change activities; coordinated research and personnel preparation;coordinated technical assistance, dissemination, and support; and technologydevelopment and media services; and
(1)to assess, and ensure the effectiveness of, efforts to educate children with disabilities(§601(d)).
IV-1
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...