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Education Updates and Federal Regulations | Special Education Impact

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Education Updates and Federal Regulations | Special Education Impact

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  1. MDE Office of Special EducationMAASE Updates December 6, 2-17 Teri L. Chapman, Director Jan Weckstein, Assistant Director

  2. Federal Updates

  3. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act • CCD • Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities • Top 5 Reasons the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is Bad for People with Disabilities • Please view at: https://c-c-d.org/fichiers/The-Top-5-Reasons-the-Tax-Cuts-and-Jobs-Act-is-Bad-for-People-with-Disabilities-Nov-28-2017.pdf

  4. Confirmation Hearing • Tuesday, December 5, 2017 • Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services at the U.S. Department of Education • Johnny Collett, Nominee • Previous Director of Special Education at the Kentucky Dept. of Education • Member of Board of Directors of NASDSE • Director of Special Education Outcomes for the Council of Chief State School Officers • Confirmation pending

  5. 1% Cap on Alternate Assessment Public Notice Posted (closes 12/20/17) • Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), no more than 1% of students assessed in each subject area (participate) may be assessed using an alternate assessment. • Michigan anticipates we will exceed the 1% cap in 2018. A plan to bring Michigan into compliance must be approved. MDE will be applying for a waiver to the 1% cap for the 2018 testing window. As provided for within ESSA, this waiver will be submitted to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and will include the proposed plan for improvement • As part of the federal requirement, the MDE is collecting comments to our request to seek the waiver, from all interested parties through December 20, 2017 • For more information on this process and to find out how to submit comments, please read the memo from State Superintendent Brian Whiston, located at www.michigan.gov/mi-access under the What's New section. MDE, Office of Special Education

  6. Waiver submission:90 days prior to the testing window • The MDE waiver will: • Be for a one year time frame • Include input from public comment • Address any disproportionality in any subgroup taking an alternate assessment • Include a plan to improve implementation of current guidelines and steps to provide oversight and training regarding appropriate assessment selection • Include a plan for monitoring and evaluation MDE, Office of Special Education

  7. OSEP DMS • System of Differentiated Monitoring and Support • Not intended as a determination or ranking • Rather, dictates how OSEP will allocate its resources to monitor and support a State in each of four areas • Supports are a tiered response based on data: Universal, Targeted and Intensive • Instead of a “one-size-fits-all” approach, OSEP will make data-driven decisions about the appropriate level of engagement, based on each State’s unique circumstances

  8. OSEP DMS • Four areas considered in the DSM • Results-Level of Engagement: Targeted • 8th Gr. Math percentage:23% • NAEP 4th Gr. RLA percentage: 24% • Exiting w/ a Regular Diploma percentage: 66% • NAEP 8th Gr. RLA percentage:36%

  9. OSEP DMS • Four areas continued • Fiscal: Level of Engagement: Targeted • Overdue corrective action related to fiscal monitoring findings • State received targeted DSM in FFY 2016 w/ monitoring and TA carried over to the 2017 State plan • The number of charter school LEAs in the State • The size of the State’s grant award

  10. OSEP DMS • Four areas continued • Compliance: Level of Engagement: Intensive • SPP Indicator B-12 (Early Childhood Transition) percentage: 76.08% • SPP Indicator B-13 (Secondary Transition) percentage:78.34% • Conditional Grant approval for FFY 2017

  11. OSEP DMS • Four areas continued • State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP)-Level of Engagement: Targeted • Evidence-based practices • Data-quality and evaluation plan • SSIP activities and outputs • Progress toward State-established objectives to support achievement of the State-identified Measurable Result (SiMR)

  12. OSEP DMS • Response for Improvement • MDE will receive targeted or intensive monitoring or support • State contact, Dan Schreier, will work with the OSE to discuss the appropriate DMS activities • FFY 2017 DMS activities will take place from January through September 2018

  13. State Updates

  14. Accountability System Development • OSE continues to meet with the ISD Directors of Special Education • Data analysis and establishing individual ISD priority areas of improvement are underway • National consultant, Jane Nell Luster will be attending and working with the OSE and the ISDs at their January 17, 2018 meeting • Options for required monitoring activities continue to be a focus of understanding

  15. Office of Special Education Updates

  16. Monitoring for 2017-2018 School Year • Spring of 2018 • A focused monitoring cycle will take place to address B-4 (rate of suspension and expulsion) data from the 2016-2017 school year. • Additional monitoring activities may occur as needs arise between now and the end of the school year.

  17. Significant Disproportionality • The Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education will be holding public hearings in February 2018 at various locations in the State regarding the proposed changes to the procedures and methodology for calculating Significant Disproportionality. • A Notice of Public Hearing will be issued specifying date, time, location • Locations will likely be the Upper Peninsula, the upper Lower Peninsula, the Lansing and Detroit areas

  18. State Complaint Information • January to September 2017 • # of State Complaints WITH Final Decisions: 109 • # with Findings: 83 or 76% of cases filed • # with NO Findings: 26 or 24 % of cases filed • # with Student Level Corrective Action (SLCAP): 74 • 68% of all cases with final decision resulted in SLCAPs • # with Compensatory Education: 44

  19. OSE Staffing • Saying Good-bye and Best Wishes! • Collette Bauman, Director of MDE LIO • More than 40 Years in the VI field! • 20 years as a teacher in Livonia • 10 years as a supervisor • 12.9 years as Director of MDE LIO • Introducing… • Dana Billings, Special Education Medicaid Consultant 13, in the Administration Unit

  20. Contact Us! OSE Information 888-320-3234 Monday-Friday 9:00-4:00 Email Us! mde-ose@michigan.gov Staff Teri Chapman, Director 517-335-0455 chapmant2@michigan.gov Jan Weckstein, Assistant Director 517-241-4521 wecksteinj@michigan.gov MDE Office of Special Education

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