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Supporting Student Achievement & Continuous School Improvement

Pennsylvania's 20 State Performance Plan Indicators:

1. Improve graduation rates for students with disabilities.

2. Decrease dropout rates for students with disabilities.

3. Improve the participation and performance of students with disabilities on statewide assessments.

4. Reduce suspension and expulsion rates for students with disabilities.

5. Provide services for school-aged students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment.

6. Provide services for preschool children with disabilities in settings with typically developing peers.

7. Improve learning outcomes for preschool children with disabilities.

8. Increase parent involvement in their child’s special education program.

9. Reduce disproportionality of racial and ethnic groups in special education.

10. Reduce disproportionality of racial and ethnic groups in specific disability categories.

11. Improve efforts to locate and serve students with disabilities in a timely manner.

12. Ensure an effective transition from infant-toddler programs to preschool programs by the child’s third birthday.

13. Improve transition services for students with disabilities age 16 and above.

14. Improve the outcomes for students moving from high school to postsecondary activities, including employment.

15. Ensure timely correction of noncompliance in special education programs.

16. Ensure that complaints filed by parents and other agencies are completed in a 60-day period.

17. Ensure timely completion of due process hearings.

18. Increase the use of resolution sessions to resolve due process hearings.

19. Increase the use of mediation to resolve differences between families and schools.

20. Make sure that the data used by Pennsylvania is valid, reliable, and accurate.

Frank N. Cloud
Director of Special Education
(724) 458-6700 x1206

MIDWESTERN INTERMEDIATE UNIT IV

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Supporting Student Achievement & Continuous School Improvement