{"id":11311,"date":"2014-05-01T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:11:49","slug":"limited-access-to-gifted-ap-programs-for-kids-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/limited-access-to-gifted-ap-programs-for-kids-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited Access to Gifted &#038; AP Programs for Kids with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Limited%20Access%20to%20Gifted%20%26%20AP%20Programs%20for%20Kids%20with%20Disabilities\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/docs\/crdc-college-and-career-readiness-snapshot.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"float: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/inhouse\/crdc.data.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In March 2014, for the first time in nearly 15 years, The U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released the first comprehensive look at civil rights data from every public school in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This critical report shows that racial disparities in school discipline policies are not only well-documented among older students, but actually begin during preschool,&#8221; said Attorney General Eric Holder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This data also reveals how students with disabilities are impacted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For parents who wonder if their kids with disabilities face the same challenges as their non disabled peers, NCLD has summarized the statistics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncld.org\/ld-insights\/blogs\/kids-with-disabilities-shut-out-of-gifted-programs-held-back-more-often\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">New Data Show Kids With Disabilities Shut Out of Gifted Programs, Held Back More Often Than Others<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CDRC data show students with learning and attention issues lack access to gifted and talented programs and rigorous AP-level courses:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Only 1 percent of students who receive IDEA services are in gifted and talented education programs, compared to 7 percent of general education students.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Students who receive IDEA services make up 12 percent of all high school students but are only 2 percent of students enrolled in an AP course.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Only 63 percent of students who receive IDEA services attend schools that offer math and science courses (like Algebra I, geometry, Algebra II, calculus, biology, chemistry and physics) compared to 69 percent of students without disabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is a higher rate of retention for students with disabilities.\u00a0 Kids with disabilities are suspended at twice the rate of other students.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncld.org\/ld-insights\/blogs\/kids-with-disabilities-shut-out-of-gifted-programs-held-back-more-often\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">from NCLD<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings of the CDRC data include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Access to preschool.<\/strong> About 40% of public school districts do not offer preschool, and where it is available, it is mostly part-day only. Of the school districts that operate public preschool programs, barely half are available to all students within the district.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suspension of preschool children.<\/strong> Black students represent 18% of preschool enrollment but 42% of students suspended once, and 48% of the students suspended more than once.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Access to advanced courses.<\/strong> Eighty-one percent (81%) of Asian-American high school students and 71% of white high school students attend high schools where the full range of math and science courses are offered (Algebra I, geometry, Algebra II, calculus, biology, chemistry, physics). However, less than half of American Indian and Native-Alaskan high school students have access to the full range of math and science courses in their high school. Black students (57%), Latino students (67%), students with disabilities (63%), and English language learner students (65%) also have less access to the full range of courses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Access to college counselors.<\/strong> Nationwide, one in five high schools lacks a school counselor; in Florida and Minnesota, more than two in five students lack access to a school counselor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retention of English learners in high school.<\/strong> English learners make up 5% of high school enrollment but 11% of high school students held back each year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/2e.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Twice-Exceptional Children<\/span><\/a> on Wrightslaw at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/2e.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/2e.index.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2014, for the first time in nearly 15 years, The U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released the first comprehensive look at civil rights data <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/limited-access-to-gifted-ap-programs-for-kids-with-disabilities\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1374],"tags":[1159,1161,480,127,1160],"class_list":["post-11311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gifted-2e","tag-civil-rights-data-collection","tag-english-language-learners-ells","tag-gifted-and-talented","tag-office-civil-rights","tag-twice-exceptional-2e-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11311"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18719,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions\/18719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}