{"id":97,"date":"2008-11-21T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-11-21T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:01:29","slug":"pass-or-fail-check-your-school-districts-2008-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/pass-or-fail-check-your-school-districts-2008-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass or Fail? Check Your School District&#8217;s 2008 Report Card"},"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=\"Pass%20or%20Fail%3F%20Check%20Your%20School%20District%27s%202008%20Report%20Card%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/report.card1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"117\" \/>In July, US DOE reported that <strong>only<\/strong> <strong>thirteen<\/strong> states met their own &#8220;self-imposed&#8221; requirements for educating children with disabilities. Not very promising, but a slight improvement from 2007 when only nine states met their requirements.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>IDEA 2004 established a requirement that all states develop and submit a State Performance Plan (SPP) to the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).<\/p>\n<p>The state plan should:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> evaluate the state&#8217;s implementation of IDEA<\/li>\n<li>describe how the state will improve implementation, and<\/li>\n<li> indicate how the state <strong>will improve the educational and functional outcomes for children with disabilities<\/strong>, using baseline data, projected targets, and activities to achieve those targets.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Each state is required to submit an Annual Performance Report (APR) on the performance of each of its local agencies according to the targets in its Plan (SPP).<\/p>\n<p>Each state is required to post its Performance Plan SPP on the state education website and is required to annually report its progress to OSEP <strong>and<\/strong> the public.<\/p>\n<p>Last year when State Report Cards were released, we questioned what would happen. Would schools take the data to heart and use it to improve performance?<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 Report Cards on state performance released in July indicated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 states &#8220;Need Improvement&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>23 states remain on the &#8220;Need Improvement&#8221; list for the 2nd consecutive year<\/li>\n<li>4 states &#8220;Need Intervention&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>3 states remain on the &#8220;Need Intervention&#8221; list for the 2nd consecutive year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the IDEA 2004 requirement for State Performance Plans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blogs\/07\/idea.report.cards.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">IDEA Report Cards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you know your state&#8217;s performance?  Pass or fail? Find your state&#8217;s Report Card here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/policy\/speced\/guid\/idea\/monitor\/factsheet.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/policy\/speced\/guid\/idea\/monitor\/factsheet.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Individual state letters can be found here:<a href=\" http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/fund\/data\/report\/idea\/partbspap\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/fund\/data\/report\/idea\/partbspap\/index.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To find the specific data for your state and your school district, go to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowpagesforkids.com\/help\/seas.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">State Department of Education<\/span><\/a> or simply google &#8220;[your state name] state performance plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, US DOE reported that only thirteen states met their own &#8220;self-imposed&#8221; requirements for educating children with disabilities. Not very promising, but a slight improvement from 2007 when only <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/pass-or-fail-check-your-school-districts-2008-report-card\/\">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":[5,11],"tags":[204,1293,202,203],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idea-2004","category-special-ed-law","tag-annual-progress-reports","tag-idea-2004","tag-state-performance-plans","tag-state-report-cards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}