Special Education Data collection and reporting

1. Special Education Data collection and reporting

2. SPED Data Collected • Graduation/Drop Out (ISEE) • State Assessment Participation/Performance (Assessment) • Disproportionality - Suspension/Expulsion (ISEE) • Placement (ISEE) • Timely assessments (ISEE) • Disproportionality – Identification (ISEE) • Early Childhood Outcomes (Data Collection – will be changing) • Secondary Transition (File Reviews) • Secondary Outcomes (contracted) • Parent Participation (contracted) • Complaints/Due Process (Dispute Resolution logs) Provided by the Idaho state department of education

3. Templates on ISEE Updated templates can be fount on the ISEE website: • http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/isee/ Provided by the Idaho state department of education

4. Reporting Special Education Data in ISEE Handout! • http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/special_edu/ • http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/special_edu/docs/child_count/Reporting%20Special%20Education%20Data%20in%20ISEE.pdf Provided by the Idaho state department of education

5. Child Count Taken from the November ISEE Upload §300.641 Annual report of children served--information required in the report. (a) For purposes of the annual report required by section 618 of the Act, the State and the Secretary of the Interior must count and report the number of children with disabilities receiving special education and related services on any date between October 1 and December 1 of each year. Provided by the Idaho state department of education

6. Child Count Required: Student must be “enrolled” in the district Student must have a current eligibility Student must have a current IEP Provided by the Idaho state department of education

7. Child Find (60-day timeline) LEA must report ALL students – ages 3 to 21 Referred for the first time (initial) Received written permission for initial (first time) evaluation Regardless of determination (eligible/ineligible/undetermined) 5 day exclusion rule FY reporting (July 1 to June 30) Provided by the Idaho state department of education

8. Early Childhood Transition • Only used for student (children) referred from Infant Toddler Program of the Department of Health and Welfare (Part C) • LEA must report all students (children) referred • FY Reporting (July 1 – June 30) Provided by the Idaho state department of education

9. Discipline For SPED purposes, we use the Discipline & Incidents of Crime and Violence data uploaded in ISEE. See Chris Campbell’s presentations Provided by the Idaho state department of education

10. Data Verification • Child Count – verified by Funding and Accountability Coordinator (Lester Wyer) in December/January • Child Find (60-day timeline) and Early Childhood Transition – verified by Quality Assurance and Reporting Coordinator (Richard O’Dell) in September • Discipline – verified by Quality Assurance and Reporting Coordinator (Richard O’Dell) in September Provided by the Idaho state department of education

11. Data Reporting Only aggregated state data are reported – never individual district, school, program, or student level data EdFact (618) – quantitative data only http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/file-specifications.html State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/special_edu/publicReporting.htm Provided by the Idaho state department of education

12. SDE Contacts Lester Wyer – Funding and Accountability Coordinator ldwyer@sde.idaho.gov (208) 332-6916 Data Collection, Data Development, Part B Funding, IDEA Part B, Preschool Applications, State SPED Funding, Child Count Richard O’Dell – Quality Assurance and Reporting Coordinator rodell@sde.idaho.gov (208) 332-6919 Data Collection, Data Analysis, Data Development, Public Reporting, Compliance Monitoring Provided by the Idaho state department of education