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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit
Part B State Performance Plan
transferred to another program, and evaluators failed to submit reports in a timely manner.
Additionally, 93.21% of early childhood students with parent consent to evaluate were
evaluated within the 60-day timeline. Similarly, 90.53% of school age students with parent
consent to evaluate were evaluated within the 60-day timeline.
As part of the monitoring procedures, the M/PE Section of the Special Education Unit (SEU)
conducts file audits to ascertain if local districts are meeting timelines. Districts found failing
to meet timelines are given a noncompliance CAP requiring a corrective action plan to be
submitted. The SEA supervisor assigned to the local district assists in the development of the
action plan. The AMI™ software developed in 2005-06, and being fully implemented in 2006-
07, will provide the M/PE Section the means to monitor electronically school age student
IEPs. Early childhood monitoring of due process timelines can also be conducted
electronically, with consent from the program, through the SEASWeb early childhood IEP
application developed as part of the Arkansas General Supervision Enhancement Grant
(GSEG).
In reporting this indicator, Arkansas chose not to use monitoring data in 2005-06; instead, the
referral tracking application was implemented as part of the special education module in
APSCN. Training was held in August 2005 via a series of web teleconferences for the LEAs.
Year one of the data collection created challenges for the LEAs and for data management
with additional business logic being added to increase the accuracy of the data. Future
activities surrounding the data collection will include 1) updating the referral tracking
application to include reasons for the delays in evaluation, and 2) annual training with the
LEAs.
Since Indicator 11 was a new indicator in 2005-06, Arkansas did not expect to hit the 100%
compliance target for the first year of data collection. During the process of analyzing the
data, unforeseen yet logical data entry problems became apparent. To address said problems,
additional business logic guidelines will be built into the APSCN and MySped Resource
programming. These will be implemented to limit data errors encountered during the 2005-06
data collection period, which included incomplete data sets, conflicting dates, incorrect
reporting of a child’s placement within a special education program, and/or other such data
entry errors.
With the implementation of the new business logic programming, the percent of students
meeting the evaluation timeline should see an increase in the 2006-07 school year. With
improved and more strictly guided data entry, the percentage of districts meeting the
Indicator 11 compliance should steadily increase until the 100% compliance target is met.
One of the State Improvement Grant (SIG) targets for 2005-2006 was to reduce special
education referrals. Both Cohort I (began SIG activities in 2004-2005) and Cohort II (began
SIG activities in 2005-2006) show a marked decrease in the number of referrals for special
education evaluation.
Additionally, the Arkansas IDEA Data & Research Office undertook a study and analyzed
data gathered for this indicator, by school age and early childhood, to ascertain if there is a
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