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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit
Part B State Performance Plan
Exhibit I-14.4: Disability Representativeness of Survey Responders by Percentages
Autism
Emotional
Hearing
Multiple
Mental
Disturbance
Impaired
Disabilities
Retardation
1.86%
1.97%
3.71%
2.44%
20.77%
Leavers
2.22%
1.90%
3.49%
3.17%
18.73%
Responders
-0.37%
0.07%
0.22%
-0.74%
2.04%
Difference
Other Health
Orthopedic
Specific
Speech/
Traumatic
Impairment
Impairment
Learning
Language
Brain Injury
Disability
Impairment
15.66%
0.23%
51.74%
1.39%
0.23%
Leavers
18.09%
0.63%
49.21%
2.22%
0.32%
Responders
-2.43%
-0.40%
2.53%
-0.83%
-0.09%
Difference
However, the same analysis conducted at the district level found the response rate in some
programs was not representative. Additional activities will be incorporated into the data
preparation to ensure contact information is as up to date as possible. Activities will include (1)
giving districts an additional opportunity to verify contact information and (2) the IDEA Data &
Research Office will provide districts with a draft letter they can use to notify former students of
the upcoming survey. These will provide opportunities to update contact information prior to
sending the final student list to LifeTrack Services, Inc. thus increasing the possibility of having
valid contact information.
84.4% of youth who had IEPs (leaving school in 2006-07), are no longer in secondary school
FFY 2007
and will be competitively employed, enrolled in some type of postsecondary school, or both,
within one year of leaving high school
84.5% of youth who had IEPs (leaving school in 2007-08), are no longer in secondary school
FFY 2008
and will be competitively employed, enrolled in some type of postsecondary school, or both,
within one year of leaving high school
Part B Indicator 14 is considered a new indicator this year. The State developed (a) a new
FFY 2009
baseline using the language of the revised measurement table (May 2010), (b) three, new
measurable and rigorous targets, and (c) improvement activities.
FFY
Measurable and Rigorous Target
A.
12.86% will be enrolled in higher education = [(# of youth who are no
FFY 2009
longer in secondary school, had IEPs in effect at the time they left school and
were enrolled in higher education within one year of leaving high school)
divided by the (# of respondent youth who are no longer in secondary school
and had IEPs in effect at the time they left school)] times 100.
B. 48.55% will be enrolled in higher education or competitively employed
within one year of leaving high school = [(# of youth who are no longer in
secondary school, had IEPs in effect at the time they left school and were
enrolled in higher education or competitively employed within one year of
leaving high school) divided by the (# of respondent youth who are no longer
in secondary school and had IEPs in effect at the time they left school)] times
100.
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