Download or read book Special education additional assistance and better coordination needed among Education offices to help states meet the NCLBA teacher requirements report to the Ranking Minority Member Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Special Education written by Marnie S. Shaul and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report addresses issues related to highly qualified special education teachers, examining: state certification requirements, including use of alternative certification programs, for special educators and how they relate to No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) requirements; factors that facilitate or impede state efforts to ensure that special education teachers meet NCLBA requirements; and how different Department of Education (Education) offices help states address NCLBA teacher requirements. Researchers surveyed special education directors in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia regarding the study topics; interviewed education officials in six diverse states; interviewed about 20 federal education officials and representatives from eight national education organizations on the study topics; reviewed all states' Web sites to gather data on the subject; and analyzed agency documentation, legislation, and other documentation related to special education teacher qualifications and requirements. In the 2002-03 school year, all states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia required that special educators have a bachelor's degree and be certified to teach, and half required special educators to demonstrate subject matter competency in core academic subjects. State education officials reported that availability of funds to support professional development facilitated implementation of NCLBA teacher requirements, while other factors, including uncertainty about how to apply the subject matter competency requirement to special educators, impeded implementation. State education officials and national education organizations' representatives cited the need for more assistance from Education in explaining NCLBA's teacher requirements and identifying implementation strategies. Education has provided a range of assistance, such as site visits, Web-based guidance, and financial aid to help states implement the highly qualified teacher requirements. However, department coordination related to the implementation of NCLBA's teacher requirements for special education teachers has been limited. Appended are: thirty-one states with alternative routes to special education certification during the 2002-03 school year; comments from Education; and GAO contacts and staff acknowledgements.
Download or read book Special education improved timeliness and better use of enforcement actions could strengthen Education s monitoring system report to the Ranking Minority Member Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Child Left Behind Act most students with disabilities participated in statewide assessments but inclusion options could be improved report to the Ranking Minority Member Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Education written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements
Download or read book Gao 04 659 Special Education written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-04-659 Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements
Download or read book Roundtable Discussion written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Education and Early Childhood Development and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Special Education written by Marnie S. Shaul and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated how the Department of Education (Education) monitored state compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for children age 3-21 years, the extent and nature of noncompliance, and how Education has ensured that noncompliance is resolved once identified. Researchers analyzed Education monitoring documents, interviewed state and federal officials, and visited five state special education offices. Overall, to monitor compliance, Education annually reviews special education data submitted by all states and uses a risk-based approach to identify states in need of further inspection. This monitoring system relies upon collaboration with states, as each state is responsible for assessing and reporting its performance on the provision of special education services. Some of the data used by Education, such as information on how parents are included in their children's education and students' experiences after leaving school, are weak in that they are not uniformly measured or are difficult for states to collect. From 1997-2002, Education identified roughly equal amounts of noncompliance for failing to adequately provide services to students as noncompliance for not adhering to IDEA's procedural regulations. Education found 253 compliance failures in 30 of 31 states visited during this time. This study found 52 percent of compliance failures to be directly related to providing student services. The remaining 48 percent involved failure to meet certain IDEA procedural requirements. Education sought resolution by providing states with technical assistance and requiring them to develop corrective action plans to ensure compliance within 1 year. However, most cases of noncompliance remained open for 2-7 years before closure. On occasion, Education made use of sanctions to address longstanding issues with noncompliance, although resolution has been protracted. States expressed concerns about the standard 1-year timeframe Education imposes for correction, and Education officials acknowledged that it is sometimes not feasible for states to remedy noncompliance and demonstrate effectiveness in that length of time. Appended are: Scope and Methodology; IDEA-Related Sanctions 1994-2003; Comments from the Department of Education; and GAO contacts and staff acknowledgements.
Download or read book No Child Left Behind Act more information would help states determine which teachers are highly qualified report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Roundtable Discussion written by Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this countable was to discuss the requirements of No Child Left Behind that about 200,000 teachers--special education teachers who teach children in special education classes or who are severely disabled and who teach multiple subjects in middle school and in high school--be "highly qualified," and what exactly that means. In his opening statement, Honorable Lamar Alexander stated that one witness, himself a teacher, posed three questions that seemed to best represent the point of the hearing: (1) What exactly do I have to do by the end of the next school year to demonstrate that I am highly qualified using the House option? (2) Will I have sufficient time to meet the requirements? and (3) What will the consequences be to me if I do not prove myself to be highly qualified? This roundtable set out to determine whether Congress has created barriers for special education teachers and to learn what Congress can do to achieve the objectives set out in the No Child Left Behind and the IDEA legislation. Testimony was presented by: Lamar Alexander (R-TN); Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA); Jeff Sessions (R-AL); John H. Hagar, Assistant Secretary, Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education; Accompanied by Carolyn Snowbarger, Director, Teacher-To-Teacher Initiative, and Special Assistant for Teacher Quality, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education; Rene Islas, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education; Jeffrey Langham, Superintendent of Education, Elmore County School System, Wetumpka, Alabama; James McLeskey, Professor and Chair, Department of Special Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Carol Ann Baglin, Assistant State Superintendent, Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services, Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore, Maryland; William Connolly, Teacher, Quirk Middle School, Hartford, Connecticut; Lana C. Seivers, Commissioner of Education, Tennessee; and Mary Senne, Parent and Disability Community Advocate, Orlando, Florida.
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Download or read book U S Education Reform and National Security written by Joel I. Klein and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
