Coordinated Early
Intervening Services (CEIS) Step by Step
State Educational Agency
Determine whether each LEA has
significant disproportionality based on race or ethnicity with respect to identification, placement, and disciplinary removals.
States are required to provide, in their State Supplemental Survey and IDEA Part B Application, their definition of significant disproportionality. The definition must conform to a national standard provided at 34 CFR §300.647. OSEP guidance requires states to report all risk ratio thresholds, minimum cell sizes, minimum n-sizes, standards for measuring reasonable progress, and the rationales for each as a part of that definition.
Relevant Regulations
- 34 CFR §300.647
- Significant Disproportionality Final Regulations (pp. 92394–442)
TA Centers that assist with determining significant disproportionality
U.S. Department of Education Funded TA Centers
- IDEA Data Center (IDC)
IDC provides technical assistance to SEAs to help them understand and interpret different methods for calculating significant disproportionality as part of its mission of building state capacity to collect, report, analyze, and use high-quality IDEA data. This includes the new standard significant disproportionality method defined in 34 CFR §300.647.
Specific resources to help determine significant disproportionality
U.S. Department of Education Resources
- Part B Significant Disproportionality Protocol
- Dear Colleague Letter: Preventing Racial Discrimination in Special Education
- EMAPS User Guide: State Supplemental Survey (SSS) (Section 6.9, p. 32)
- OSEP Memo 08-09: Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS)
U.S. Department of Education Funded TA Center Resources
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