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Context and Special Education Disproportionality: A Look at Racial Equity Policies in Special Education
Sun, April 14, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 2Session Type: Symposium
Abstract
The session offers insights into the relationships between the contextual factors within and around schools and effective policy implementation. Despite over 60 years of documented disproportionality, extensive research on the causes of disproportionality, and 20 years of IDEA-based racial equity monitoring, we have only a limited empirical understanding of how IDEA racial equity policy is connected to the complex and multi-layered factors that contribute to or alleviate inequities. Presenters will share emerging research, highlighting different ways contexts shape special education policy implementation and outcomes, and invite our audience to consider how our understanding of context can yield new policy remedies for disproportionality.
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The Contexts of “Significant Disproportionality”: Looking at State Implementation - Roey Ahram, Grow Your Own Illinois; Alexandra Aylward, University of Nevada - Reno
Enhancing the Study of Disproportionality in Special Education: An Event History Analysis Across Districts in California - Alexandra Aylward, University of Nevada - Reno; Rebecca A. Cruz, Johns Hopkins University
Composition, Context, and Institutional Practices: School Organizations and Racial Disproportionality in Special Education - Rebecca A. Cruz, Johns Hopkins University
Mixed-Methods Data Integration to Understand Disability Policy Reverberations Across the Educational Ecosystem - Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, Hunter College - CUNY; Allison Firestone, San Francisco Unified School District