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Coordinated Early Intervening Services as a Solution for Significant Disproportionality: What Have We Learned?
Tue, April 12, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 146 CSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
The contributors to this symposium move us forward in our understanding of significant disproportionality in special education and the use of coordinated early intervening services as a response. Significant overrepresentation of some racial/ethnic groups in some disability categories exists, and coordinated early intervening services, as required by law, provide a theoretically sound response to these forms of overrepresentation. States and districts are using a number of forms of CEIS: many of them fail to address the cultural or even numerical bases of disproportionality, but some provide promising examples for the future – a future in which, if OSEP policy changes as expected, standardized definitions of significant disproportionality may require many more districts to apply CEIS remedies.
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The Need for Coordinated Early Intervening Services: Persistent Patterns of Overrepresentation in Special Education - Amy Bitterman, Westat; James Bethel, Westat; Tom E. Munk, Westat; Weijia Ren, Westat
Overrepresentation, Underrepresentation, and Remediation in State Coordinated Early Intervening Services Efforts - Russell J. Skiba, Indiana University; Choong Chung, Indiana University; Gwen Kelley, Indiana University; Mariella Isabel Arredondo, Indiana University
Unintended Consequences: Who Benefits When and If Significant Racial Disproportionality in Discipline Triggers Coordinated Early Intervening Services Funding - Daniel Losen, University of California - Los Angeles
Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) Solving Disproportionality: Examination of Statewide Data on CEIS Plans - Edward Fergus, New York University