TUSD

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TUSD

• Exceptional Education
• Internal Summary and Environmental Scan
• Highlights
• June 13, 2005

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TUSD

• Exceptional Education Data Team

Kathryn Martin Jane Mullins Mary Neale Terri
Polan Gail Steinbach Cathy Taylor
Jacqueline Denton Nancy Edwards Rick Haan Jaimie
Leopold Karen McMaster
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Exceptional EducationDepartment

• Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
• Special Education (Ages 3-22)
• Direct Service Claims (DSC) (Medicaid)

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Exceptional Education Student Profile

• Total number of students in Exceptional Education
  is 12,472
• GATE 4,550
• Special Education Ages 3-5 717
• Special Education Ages 6-21 7205

Data as of 4/05
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Distribution of Exceptional Education Students
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Special Education History

• 1949 TUSD is the first school district in the
  State to provide special education to students
  thanks to Laura Ganoung
• 1954 Brown vs The Board of Education Separate is
  not Equal
• 1975 Congress enacts the Education of the
  Handicapped Act (EHA)

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Special Education History

• 1990 The EHC Act was replaced by the
  Individuals with Disabilities Act
• 1997 IDEA
• 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education
  Improvement Act

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Recent Restructuring

• Factors
• Budget
• Early Retirement Incentives
• Transfers
• District Restructuring
• Improvement Systems
• Reduction in Administration
• Illness

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Exceptional Education Leadership 2002-2003
Exceptional Education Leadership 2003-2004
Assistant Superintendent Central Services
Executive Director
Director NE/SE Region
Director SW Region HR/Biling.
Director NW Region Ombudsperson
Director Gifted and Talented
Assistant Director Rosemont Service Center
Assistant Director Ajo Service Center
Assistant Director Transition Services
Assistant Director Medicaid Programs
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
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Exceptional Education Leadership Fall 2003

• Programs and Activities to be reassigned
• Ombudsperson
• Transition/Interim Alternative Placements
• Medicaid
• New Staff Orientation
• Service Centers
• Annual Data Collection
• Cost Study
• GATE
• Community Based Instruction
• Alternative Education Psychologist
• TBI Program Facilitator
• Supervision of 350 staff

Executive Director
Director
Assistant Director
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
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Exceptional Education Leadership 2004-2005
Interim Executive Director
Director
Interim Director
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Interim Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Assistant Director GATE
Interim Program Specialist
Program Specialist (On Leave)
Program Specialist
Program Specialist
Coordinator Medicaid
Coordinator Professional Dev.
Coordinator Assessment/ Technology/Cost Study
Coordinator Direct Link (Homebound/Tele)
Coordinator Service Centers/ Accountability/Data
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Exceptional Education2005
Karen McMaster Interim Executive Director
Jane Mullins Interim Director of School Based
Services
Deborah Anders Assistant Director of Gifted and
Talented
Leila Williams Interim Assistant Director
Program Specialists
Interim Program Specialists Jacqueline
Denton Beth Kendall Terri Polan
Laurie Dietz Brenda Hanna Shirley
Siedschlag Carin Stair Barbara Horton
GatePlus Itinerant Teachers GATE Programs
Cathy Taylor Technology/ Assessment Terri
Polan Professional Development
Mary Neale LRE/ Compliance/Service Centers Dan
Perino Transition
Jacqueline Denton Special Projects/ Medicaid Kath
ryn Martin Direct Link
Kathy Allen Child Find Paul Ohm Project ABLE
(Preschool SPED)
Coordinators
Psychologists
OT/PT/ APE
Teacher Coaches
Itinerant HI/VI
Social Workers
Speech Pathologists
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IDEA

• Provides the foundation for how States and School
  Districts provide special education.
• Allows for a funding mechanism to assist States
  and School Districts
• Identification, Evaluation, Placement, Procedural
  Safeguards and Least Restrictive Environment.

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Least Restrictive Environment

• IDEA requires students with disabilities be
  educated in the regular classroom with supports
• School Districts must make available a full
  continuum of service delivery options
• Students with disabilities must have access to
  the general education curriculum

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Least Restrictive Environment
Mainstreaming Selective placement of special
education students to participate in the general
education classroom for a period of time when the
student is ready to participate in general
education
Inclusion Commitment to educate each child, to
the maximum extent appropriate in the school and
classroom he or she would otherwise attend if not
disabled
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Inclusion

• Must be supported philosophically and
  administratively to be successful.

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

• Mandates all students including those with
  disabilities demonstrate proficiency on state
  tests
• Allows for a state-developed alternate assessment
• Allows for accommodations as specified by the
  students Individual Education Plan team

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 IDEA

• Emphasis on Teacher Quality
• By June 30, 2006 special education teachers must
  be Highly Qualified in all of the Core subjects
  they teach
• Emergency or Provisional Certificates are no
  longer allowed

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Exceptional Education Enrollment

• TUSDs special education enrollment has steadily
  increased which is consistent with nationwide
  trends
• The nationwide statistics show an increase of
  11.9 (1996-2000).

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Comparison of TUSD and U.S. Special Education
Enrollment Trends
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Special Education Enrollment as of Dec. 1 2004

• Specific Learning Disability 3452
• Speech Language Impairments 1495
• Mild Mental Retardation 461
• Other Health Impaired 454
• Emotional Disability 412
• Autism 214
• Hearing Impairments 177

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Special Education K-12
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Special Education Enrollment as of Dec. 1 2004

• Moderate Mental Retardation 136
• Multiple Disabilities 108
• Orthopedic Impairment 75
• Severe Mental Retardation 60
• Emotional Disability/Separate School 58
• Visual Impairment 39
• Multiple Disabilities/Severe Sensory 30
• Traumatic Brain Injury 30

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Special Education K-12
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Special Education Enrollment as of Dec. 1 2004

• Preschool
• Preschool Moderate Delay 261
• Preschool Speech and Language 170
• Preschool Severe Delay 147

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Special Education Enrollment as of Dec. 1 2004

• Preschool Speech Language Additional
• Head Start 55
• Wings on Words 20
• Private Preschool 25
• Parent and Child Education (PACE) and Child and
  Parent Sucess (CAPS) 65

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Population Trends

• Pima County has increased in population by 10.4
• Arizona is currently the second fastest growing
  state. It has increased in size by 16.8 from
  1999-2003
• The City of Tucson has increased in population by
  8.2 from 1999-2003, which is consistent with the
  increased enrollment in TUSD exceptional
  education

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Income

• Tucson has a reputation as a low wage town
• Within the city limits of Tucson the median
  household income is low compared to Pima County,
  Arizona, and the United States
• The gap has been increasing

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State of Arizona Educational Ethnicity 2003-2004

• Total Enrollment
• Anglo 49
• Hispanic 37
• African American 5
• Native American 8
• Asian American 1

• Special Ed Enrollment
• Anglo 49
• Hispanic 35
• African American 6
• Native American 8
• Asian American 1

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TUSD Demographics

• Special Education
• 37 Anglo
• 47 Hispanic
• 8 African American
• 5 Native American
• 2 Asian American

• Total Enrollment
• 35 Anglo
• 51 Hispanic
• 7 African American
• 4 Native American
• 3 Asian American

• Random sample from TUSD STATS page - enrollment
  on 12/1/04

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TUSD Demographics

• GATE
• 43 Anglo
• 44 Hispanic
• 5 African American
• 3 Native American
• 5 Asian American

• Gate Data as of 4/05

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Exceptional Education Enrollment

• The enrollment of TUSD exceptional education
  students has increased 8.6 in the last 6 years
  while the total TUSD enrollment has gone down by
  2.5.

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Enrollment Comparison
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Charter Schools

• There are 52 charter schools within TUSD
  boundaries.
• There are 16 under enrolled schools all are
  close to charter schools
• It is estimated that 8,309 attend those 52
  charter schools
• If these students attended TUSD schools, it could
  increase our revenue by more than 41,545,000
• This data needs further analysis.

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Charter Schools and Under-Enrolled Schools
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Exceptional Education Students

• Exceptional Education Students (GATE and Special
  Education) comprise 20 of the total TUSD
  Enrollment

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TUSD Student Enrollment
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Full Funding

• In 1975, when the Education for All Handicapped
  Children (now IDEA) was first enacted, Congress
  promised to pay for 40 of the cost of education
  of students with disabilities.

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Full Funding

• Congress has never provided 40
• State and Local education agencies have had to be
  responsible for the majority of the costs

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Congress Contribution for Educating Students
with Disabilities

• 1995 7.8
• 2000 12
• 2003 18

IDEA Funding Coalition March 2003
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COST

• Cost 41 million
• State/Federal Funds 12.5 million
• 28.5 million

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Staff

• Approximately 20 of the special education
  teachers in TUSD have emergency certification
• 38 of TUSD Teaching Assistants have not met NCLB
  requirements for highly qualified

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Medicaid DSCDirect Service Claiming

• TUSD has chosen to participate in order to
  recover some of the cost for certain medically
  related services provided to student with an IEP
  that qualify for Arizona Health Care Cost
  Containment System (AHCCCS)

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Medicaid DSCDirect Service Claiming

• Participation
• Certified Staff 425
• Classified 675
• Reimbursement 4.8 Million Total
• (2.3 Million was brought in this last year due
  to increased compliance with claim documentation)

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MAC Medicaid Administrative Claiming

• Reimbursement 4.3 Million Total
• (1.2 million from just this last year)
• NOTE Federal Guidelines have changed this year
  so TUSD can only expect annual reimbursement to
  be between 600,000 750,000.

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Medicaid Revenue

• 2003-04 Funds2,500,000
• Exceptional Education
• Teachers and Technology 300,000
• TUSD
• Teacher Salaries 2,000,000
• K-3, Project More, Legal, 504, bilingual, fine
  arts, interscholastics, ADA requests, workers
  compenstation, alternative education

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Graduation

• Students with disabilities lag behind
  non-disabled students in TUSD graduation rates.
• Regular Education 2004 80 graduated
• Special Education 2004 66 graduated

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Graduation

• Graduation statistics vary for special education
  due to
• Some state reports require data for 16-22 year
  olds and some reports require data relating to
  just students who exit school that year (12th
  graders).
• It is important to remember that students with
  IEPs can stay until they are 22.

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Parent Satisfaction
From Annual Parent Survey May 2004 n100
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Parent Satisfaction
From Annual Parent Survey May 2002 n531
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Working Conditions Survey

• An online survey for Exceptional Education staff
  was conducted from Dec. 8, 2004 through Jan. 12,
  2005
• 199 staff responded
• 124 teachers
• 75 itinerant staff

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Working Conditions SurveyTechnology

• Computer Assigned
• 19 laptops, 80 desktops, 1 none
• Network Distribution
• 26 Administrative, 74 Instructional
• Usage
• Hourly 34, Daily 60, Weekly 4, Monthly 1,
  Never 1

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Working Conditions SurveyTechnology Use
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Working Conditions Survey
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AIMS Mastery Results

• 95 of special education juniors were tested in
  2003-2004
• 5.8 special education juniors passed all three
  sections of the AIMS
• 3.4 of ELL juniors passed
• 47.4 of regular education juniors passed

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TUSD

• Exceptional Education
• Internal Summary and Environmental Scan
• June 13, 2005