Special Education Monitoring. As such, each state must develop a 6-year long plan that evaluates efforts to meet the requirements of IDEA. The plan includes indicators of compliance and student performance. States must set measurable targets for these indicators referred to as SPPI. Beyond that, LEAs may enter into either Targeted or Intensive Monitoring depending on a number of factors including timeline compliance, disproportionality, and other performance factors such as graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, etc.
Overview To ensure equitable participation in Special Education Monitoring, the Cyclical Monitoring Process for Small LEAs is specifically designed for districts and charter schools that have or fewer students with disabilities on census day. Instead, they will be monitored on a cyclical basis every three years.
Monitoring activities currently include 3 comprehensive reviews including:. Therefore, CDE is rolling out a new monitoring process in the Spring of , geared at gathering information around the provision of prescribed services to students with IEPs. This will require LEAs to calculate and report to CDE the ratio of services prescribed, versus provided, during a designated lookback period.
Overview Disproportionality is a term used in special education to describe a situation where there are significant disparities in the identification, placement, or discipline of students with disabilities in comparison to their non-disabled peers, within a particular LEA.
