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Intervening Services (CEIS) Step by Step

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Local Educational Agency

Identify and make needed revisions to policies, procedures and practices

LEAs with significant disproportionality are required to publicly report on the revision of policies, practices, and procedures consistent with the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). This report may include how comprehensive CEIS were used to address significant disproportionality.

Relevant Regulations

  • 34 CFR ยง300.646(c)

TA centers that help with the review of policies, procedures, and practices

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 to help them address challenges encountered in collecting and reporting IDEA fiscal data, including MOE and CEIS data, as part of its mission of building state capacity to collect, report, analyze, and use high-quality IDEA data.

Resources to assist with understanding public reporting requirements

U.S. Department of Education Funded TA Center Resources

  • CIFR, IDC and NCSI. IDEA Fiscal Timeline
  • PTAC. FERPA/IDEA Crosswalk Document

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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