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Title: IDEA and NCLB


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IDEA and NCLB
  • The Connection

Elizabeth Burmaster, State Superintendent Wisconsi
n Department of Public Instruction December 2003
2
Currently
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
    (IDEA) has been scheduled for reauthorization
    since 2002.
  • Presently, both the House and the Senate have
    developed draft legislation.
  • It doesnt look like anything will come to pass
    in the near future.

3
The Connection
  • No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Individuals with
    Disabilities Act (IDEA) connect in a variety of
    ways, the most significant of which include
  • Testing
  • Accountability and Adequate Yearly Progress
  • The impact of NCLB sanctions on schools in
    relation to students with disabilities
  • Highly Qualified Teachers
  • Paraprofessionals

4
Testing Students with Disabilities
  • NCLB requires
  • 95 of enrolled students, including students with
    disabilities, must participate in state
    assessments in reading and mathematics.
    (Currently, grades 4, 8, and 10 and in 2005-06
    every grade 3-8, and at least once in grades
    9-12).
  • Students with disabilities are a disaggregated
    subgroup under NCLB and schools and districts are
    held accountable when they reach a cell size of
    50 or more.

5
Testing Students with Disabilities
  • IDEA requires
  • Students with disabilities must participate in
    annual statewide assessments with or without
    appropriate accommodations or alternate
    assessments and in the grade level in which they
    are enrolled.

6
Testing Students with Disabilities
  • Currently, about 2 of Wisconsin students take
    the Alternate Assessment.
  • Students with disabilities who take Wisconsins
    Alternate Assessment are credited for test
    participation.

7
Accountability andAdequate Yearly Progress
  • NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
  • Test participation
  • Graduation or attendance
  • Reading
  • Math
  • Disaggregated by specific subgroups, including
    students with disabilities.

8
2002-03 Statewide AYP Data (as of 12/1/03)

106 schools missed AYP
Breakdown by indicators
Reading
Math
Test Participation
Other Indicator
9
2002-03 Statewide AYP Data (as of 12/1/03)

22 districts missed AYP
Breakdown by indicators
Reading
Math
Test Participation
Other Indicator
10
2002-03 Statewide AYP Data (as of 12/1/03)
Students with Disabilities

40 met 95
29 missed AYP
Test Participation
11
2002-03 Statewide AYP Data (as of 12/1/03)
Students with Disabilities

5 met 61
37 made Safe Harbor
5 Missed AYP
Reading
12
2002-03 Statewide AYP Data (as of 12/1/03)
Students with Disabilities

12 Met 37
26 made Safe Harbor
9 Missed AYP
Math
13
Accountability
Disconnect
  • IDEA accountability is built around the
    Individualized Education Program (IEP)
  • IDEA seeks progress for individual child rather
    than state benchmarks
  • IDEA provides entitlement until age 21

14
Sanctions
  • Impact on special education delivery models
  • School choice and FAPE

15
Highly Qualified Teachers
  • all teachers hired after January 8, 2002 and
    teaching in a program supported by Title I funds
    be highly qualified and all teachers teaching
    core academic subjects are to be highly
    qualified by 2005-06.
  • HOUSSE and PI 34

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Paraprofessionals
  • All Title I paraprofessionals newly hired after
    January 8, 2002 must have
  • at least 2 years of higher education or an
    associates degree or
  • passed formal state or local tests/assessments
    designed to demonstrate knowledge and ability in
    certain subject areas.
  • All Title I paraprofessionals hired before
    January 8, 2002 must meet the above requirements
    by the end of the 2005-06 school year.
  • Approximately 50 of paraprofessionals in
    Wisconsin are special education
    paraprofessionals.

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Resources
  • Information on No Child Left Behind in Wisconsin
    can be found at
  • www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/esea/index
  • Information on Individuals with Disabilities
    Education Act in Wisconsin can be found at
  • www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlsea/een
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