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Identify the factors contributing to the significant disproportionality.

With assistance from the state, an LEA identified as having significant disproportionality must identify and address the factors contributing to the significant disproportionality, which may include, among other identified factors, a lack of access to scientifically based instruction; economic, cultural, or linguistic barriers to appropriate identification or placement in particular educational settings; inappropriate use of disciplinary removals; lack of access to appropriate diagnostic screenings; differences in academic achievement levels; and policies, practices, or procedures that contribute to the significant disproportionality.

Relevant Regulations

  • 34 CFR §300.646
  • Significant Disproportionality Final Regulations (pp. 92383–85)

TA centers that help identify factors that contribute to significant disproportionality

U.S. Department of Education–Funded TA Centers

  • Data Center for Addressing Significant Disproportionality (DCASD)
    DCASD works with state and local education agencies to help build their capacity to identify and address significant disproportionality by more accurately collecting, reporting, analyzing, and using their IDEA data.
  • IDEA Data Center (IDC)
    IDC provides technical assistance to SEAs and LEAs to help them examine the factors that contribute to significant disproportionality and other success gaps as part of its mission to build states’ capacity to collect, report, analyze, and use high-quality IDEA data.
  • The Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
    The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) established PBIS to define, develop, implement, and evaluate a multitiered approach to technical assistance that improves the capacity of states, districts, and schools to establish, scale up, and sustain the PBIS framework. Emphasis is given to the impact of implementing PBIS on the social, emotional, and academic outcomes of students with disabilities.

Resources to help LEAs identify factors contributing to significant disproportionality in general

U.S. Department of Education Resources

  • Civil Rights Data Collection

U.S. Department of Education Funded TA Center Resources

  • Collaboration for Effective Education Development and Reform (CEEDAR). Innovation Configuration on Culturally Responsive Teaching
  • DCASD. Root Cause Analysis Overview
  • DCASD. Teaming for Successful Root Cause Analyses
  • The IDEA Partnership and NASDE. Leading By Convening | Blueprints For Authentic Engagement

Resources to help LEAs identify factors in the category of identification

U.S. Department of Education Resources

  • National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Achievement Gap Reports

Resources to help LEAs identify factors in the category of discipline

U.S. Department of Education Resources

  • Rethinking Discipline (Webpage)

U.S. Department of Education Funded TA Center Resources

  • Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA). Expulsion and Suspension in Early Childhood
  • Institute of Education Science (IES). Analyzing student-level disciplinary data: A guide for districts

Do you know of other resources that are not listed here? Contact us.

CIFR provides technical assistance to states to help staff better understand IDEA fiscal requirements and to build state capacity to report, analyze, and use accurate special education fiscal data, including those for CEIS.

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The Center for IDEA Fiscal Reporting (CIFR) is a partnership among WestEd, AEM Corporation, American Institutes for Research (AIR), Emerald Consulting, the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Center for Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education (TAESE) at Utah State University, and Westat. The Improve Group is CIFR's external evaluator.

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