SPP at a Glance
What requires states to submit a State Performance Plan?
What is IDEA. IDEA requires that each state develop a SPP.
Who determines what the indicators are?
True or false SPP 8 is a compliance indicator.
False, SPP 8, Parent Involvement is a results indicator.
What is SPP Indicator 16?
What is Mediation. The percent of mediations held that resulted in mediation agreements.
How any SPP indicators are there?
What is 17 state level indicators.
How often does each state have to develop and submit a SPP?
What is every 6 years.
This indicator measures the percent of youth with IEPS dropping out.
What is SPP Indicator 2: Dropout Rates
True or False? Early Childhood Transition is a compliance indicator?
What is true. Early Childhood Transition is a compliance indicator.
This indicator measures the percent of youth who are no longer in secondary school, had IEPs in effect at the time they left school.
Indicators are divided into these two types.
What is compliance indicators and results indicators.
How often is NYSED required to collect state-wide data on each indicator?
What is annually
This indicator measures the percent of districts that have a significant discrepancy in the rate of suspensions and expulsions of greater than 10 days in a school year for children with individualized education programs (IEPs)
What is SPP Indicator 4A: Suspension/Expulsion.
True or False. SPP Indicator 14 states that youth no longer enrolled in secondary school must be enrolled in a higher education program within one year of leaving high school.
False. Youth may be enrolled in higher education or competitively employed within one year of leaving high school. Enrolled in higher education or in some other postsecondary education or training program; or competitively employed or in some other employment within one year of leaving high school.
What is SPP Indicator 5?
SPP Indicator 5 is School Age environments. Measures the Percent of children with IEPs aged 5 who are enrolled in kindergarten and aged 6 through 21 served.
What three monitoring priority areas do the SPP indicators fall under?
What is free and appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE), disproportionality, and general supervision.
Data on selected SPP/APR indicators is used to inform specific monitoring activities of which office?
What is the Office of Special Education Quality Assurance (SEQA).
This indicator measures the percent of children with individualized education programs, ages 3, 4, and 5 who are enrolled in a preschool program.
What is SPP indicator 6: Preschool Environment:
6A: Receiving the majority of their special education and related services in a regular early childhood program
6B : Attending a separate special education class, separate school or residential facility
6C : Receiving special education and related services in the home
True or False. SPP Indicator 4: Suspension/Expulsion looks at students who have been suspended for more than 20 days.
False, SPP Indicator 4 looks at students who have been suspended for 10 days.
Who monitors each states implementation of IDEA?
What is the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
What do compliance indicators focus on?
Compliance indicators focus on whether a specific requirement of the IDEA was met.
Each year states must report progress against the targets in its SPP in what report?
What is the Annual Performance Report (APR).
For SPP Indicator 7: Preschool Outcomes what 3 areas do students have to show improvement in?
What is positive social-emotional skills (including social relationships), Acquisition and use of knowledge and skills (including early language/communication and early literacy) and use of appropriate behaviors to meet their needs.
True or False. SPP Indicator 17: State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP), is a plan for improving literacy proficiency for students with learning disabilities in grades 6-8 as measured by the annual New York State English Language Arts (ELA) Assessment.
False SPP 17 is plan to improve the literacy proficiency for students with learning disabilities i grades 3-5.
What does SPP Indicator 15 measure?
SPP Indicator 15: Resolution Sessions, measures the percent of hearing requests that went to resolution sessions that were resolved through resolution session settlement agreements
Results indicators focus on student and family outcomes.