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Coordinated Early
Intervening Services (CEIS) Step by Step

BACK TO 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

    • CIFR, IDC and NCSI. IDEA Fiscal Timeline
    • IDC. EDFacts IDEA Discipline Data Infographic
    • IDC. IDEA Part B Discipline Data Collection Questions and Answers
    • IDC. Significant Disproportionality Calculator and User’s Guide

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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