Significant Disproportionality

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Significant Disproportionality

• Symptoms, Remedies and Treatments

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Significant Disproportionality

• How do you get it?
• What are your symptoms?
• How do you get rid of it?

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Significant Disproportionality

• IDEA 20 U.S.C 1418(d)
• IDEA 20 U.S.C 1413(f)

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Significant Disproportionality

• Based on race and ethnicity, the
• identification of children with disabilities
• identification of children with particular
  impairments
• incidence, duration, and type of disciplinary
  actions
• placement of children with disabilities in
  particular educational settings

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• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Cognitive Impairment
• Emotional Impairment
• Other Health Impairment
• Specific Learning Disability
• Speech Language Impairment

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• African American
• American Indian
• Asian
• Hispanic
• White
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Two or More Races

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Significant Disproportionality

• Data Sources
• Identification and Ed Settings
• MSDS Fall 2012 and Fall 2013
• Discipline
• MSDS 2012-2013 School Year suspensions
  /expulsions

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Significant Disproportionality

• Identification and Ed Settings Risk Ratios
• For two years
• Weighted Risk Ratio, Alternate Risk Ratio, Risk
  Ratio gt 3.0
• Operating District or Resident District

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Significant Disproportionality

• Discipline Risk Ratios
• For one year
• Weighted Risk Ratio, Alternate Risk Ratio or Risk
  Ratio gt 3.0
• Operating District Only
• Out of School 10 days
• Out of School 2-10 days
• In-School 10 days
• In-School 2-10 days

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Significant Disproportionality

• Check your data!

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Significant Disproportionality

• Annual opportunities/reminders to check your
  data.
• June Quality data message from CEPI about
  discipline data. Discipline data reports
  available in MSDS all year long.
• August Significant Disproportionality warning
  letters (for Ed Settings and Identification only)
  in CIMS workbooks.

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Federal requirements
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Federal requirements

• Review policies, procedures, and practices.
• Publicly report any policies, procedures or
  practices that are changed.
• Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS)

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Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS)

• It is the intent of CEIS that districts have the
  flexibility to use IDEA and Elementary and
  Secondary Education Act (ESEA) funds in a
  coordinated manner in order to provide equitable
  services across districts for students with
  unique needs.

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CEIS

• General Education Initiatives
• K-12 but emphasis on K-3
• Academic or Behavioral Support
• Professional Development

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CEIS

• Any district that receives IDEA funds must
  reserve 15 of the Section 619 (preschool)/Section
  611 (flowthrough) funds for coordinated early
  intervening services.

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CEIS

• If 619 funds are used for CEIS, then those
  activities supported with the 619 amount may ONLY
  be used for kindergarten activities (not
  preschool).

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CEIS

• Program Design
• Who
• Realistic of students to be served
• General Education At-Risk Students
• State specific target group
• What
• What will money be spent on? e.g. professional
  development or staff salary, etc..

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CEIS
The Target Population General Education
At-Risk Students
Activity Purchasing Supplies
Activity Professional Development
Activity Purchasing Programs
Activity Hiring Staff
Activity Purchasing Technology
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CEIS

• Identify students for one-year CEIS activities
• Maintain database for three (3) years for
  identified student population that received
  benefit from CEIS

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CEIS
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Significant Disproportionality

• District participates in a CEIS review
• Is district doing what they said they were going
  to do?
• Is district on track to spend money?

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Significant Disproportionality

• Informational Webcast on Coordinated Early
  Intervening Services posted at OSE website
• http//www.michigan.gov/mde/0,4615,7-140-6530_6598
  _8391-287354--,00.html

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Significant Disproportionality

• Review your data! Review your data!
• Discipline Data Reports available within MSDS.
• Warning letters sent annually in August CIMS
  workbook. (Identification and Educational
  Settings ONLY)
• Make changes as needed!

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Why it Matters ?
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QUESTIONS
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Contact Information

• CEIS questions contact Deb Maurer at
  maurerd_at_michigan.gov or 517-373-7062
• Data questions contact Nick Thelen at
  thelenn1_at_michigan.gov or 517-241-4418
• Julie Trevino at trevinoj1_at_michigan.gov or
  517-241-0497