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Direct linkBarnard-Brak, Lucy; Stevens, Tara; Valenzuela, Evelyn – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
The purpose of the current study was to examine barriers, if any, reported by special education directors to providing extended school year (ESY) services. Results indicate four barriers to providing ESY services listed in order of importance by special education directors: difficulty in finding qualified personnel to work over the summer,…
Descriptors: Barriers, Special Education, Rural Education, Disabilities
Vannest, Kimberly J.; Mahadevan, Lakshmi; Mason, Benjamin A.; Temple-Harvey, Kimberly K. – Remedial and Special Education, 2009
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) seeks to address the inequality in schools and to correct achievement disparities prevalent in education, but little is known of NCLB's effect on students in special education. This study assesses the impact of NCLB on special education by asking educators, administrators, and staff who serve students in special…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teacher Qualifications, Disabilities, Special Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Special Education. – 1983
The handbook outlines Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) rules regarding the education of handicapped students. A chart format is used to present applicable Federal regulations, state law, and SBOE rules. The following topics are among those considered under clarifications of definitions in federal regulations and state law: handicapped…
Descriptors: Definitions, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textUS Department of Education, 2008
Six years after passage of No Child Left Behind and midway to the nation's goal of having students on grade level or better in reading and math by 2014, more data than ever before has been collected about the academic performance of American students and schools. Information in this brochure charts student demographics, achievement-to-date and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Reading Achievement
Caranikas-Walker, Fanny; Shapley, Kelly S.; Cordeau, Molly – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2006
This study supports efforts by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to foster greater state accountability and establish data-driven planning and self-assessment processes that help states and schools to address provisions of the recently enacted Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Personnel Selection
Caranikas-Walker, Fanny; Shapley, Kelly S.; Cordeau, Molly – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2006
This study supports efforts by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to foster greater state accountability and establish data-driven planning and self-assessment processes that help states and schools to address provisions of the recently enacted Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Special Education Teachers
Nagle, Katherine M.; McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Nolet, Victor; Malmgren, Kimber – Educational Policy Reform Research Institute, 2007
This paper is one of four individual case study reports presenting the qualitative findings from a five-year investigation of the impact of accountability reform on students with disabilities in four states, eight districts, and twenty schools. This case study report presents qualitative data collected over a four-year period--2001-2004--from…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Public Schools
