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Mississippi Department of Education Dr. Hank Bounds-State Superintendent	State Board of Education MS Board of Education MS Board of Education Policy Manual MS Board of Education Agenda .
Mississippi Department of Education Register for MDE Hosted Events Communication Room Education stakeholders, may express opinions/concerns, ask questions or write comments to or about the various offices within the agency. .	Mississippi Code for Education Title 37 Education Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards, 2007.pdf
U. S. Department of Education’s (ED) Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs (SASA) office reviewed the Mississippi Department of Education’s (MDE) administration of the following programs authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB): Title I, Part A (Basic); Title I, Part B, Subpart 3 (Even Start); Title I, Part D (Neglected or Delinquent); and Title X, Part C, Subtitle B (McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001). Letter to Superintendent Mississippi State Department of Education Report on Title I Monitoring Visit to Mississippi Department of .	The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the smarter you grow. The smarter you grow, the stronger your voice, When speaking your mind or making your choice. "I can assure you there is no more powerful advocate for children than a parent armed with information and options." ~Secretary Rod Paige Special Education is a Service—Not a Place (2001 article)http://www.msde.state.md.us/SpecialEducation/AllInclusive.pdf Mississippi Department of Education Office of Special Education Ann Moore, State Director Office Number: 601-359-3498 Parent Hotline: 1-877-544-0408
Mississippi Department of Education Office of Special Education Procedural Safeguards July 2007 Procedural Safeguards .	Testing Students with Disabilities Regulations
Annual Budgets for Your School District’s Special Education Programs has to include Parental Involvement Annual IDEIA and Preschool Project Application (FY08) http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/special_education/ ProjectApp08.html DO YOU HAVE INPUT INTO YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT’S BUDGET FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES?	State Regulations: Policies and Procedures for Special Education Services in Mississippi ????????????? History 7/19/2005 Mississippi Policies for Implementation of IDEIA 2004 approved by State Board for APA March 30, 2006 State Special Education Draft Policies http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/special%5Feducation/docs/ DraftPolicies_3_31_06.doc Procedures were worked on in August 2006 and November 2006. Meetings were scheduled for February 2007 but never took place.
State Advisory Committee for Special Education (Source: MDE: Office of Special Education) Bylaws 2007-2008 Meeting Dates Public Notices Agendas	Parents United Together Compilation of Mississippi State Advisory Panel Recommendations from 1997 to 2007 and History of Members from 1998 to 2007 Are your tax dollars being wasted when the Mississippi State Advisory Panel on Special Education meets? Click here .
Special Education Training Needs Survey Mississippi Department of Education Office of Special Education March 7, 2007 (Information requested from MDE)	Mississippi Dyslexia Program Parental Involvement, NCLB-Title I, Part A, Non-Regulatory Guidance
2007 Mississippi Extended Curriculum Frameworks (MECF) for Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science It is no longer enough for students with disabilities to be present in a general education classroom. Students with significant disabilities also must have instruction and accommodations that promote their progress toward the educational expectations of the larger student population. Source: The 2005 Mississippi Extended Curriculum Frameworks for Language Arts, and Mathematics and the 2007 Mississippi Extended Curriculum Frameworks for Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.	The Three Tier Instructional Model is an MDE program located in the Office of Academic Education.
Elementary school version – intended for SCD students in grades 3-5 or ungraded students age 8-10 Middle school version – intended for SCD students in grades 6-8 or ungraded students age 11-13 High school version – intended for SCD students in grade 12 or ungraded students age 18	2007 Revised Mississippi IEP Forms Form ESY Handbook 2003.pdf Required Forms (Word Format) Optional Forms (Word Format) IEP Form (Word Format) Documentation Form (Word Format)
Mississippi Alternate Assessment of Extended Curriculum Frameworks (MAAECF) http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/maaecf/ .	Transition Portfolio Mississippi Occupational Diploma
2006-2007 Exemplary Inclusion Program Winners D.T. Cox Elementary School , Pontotoc School District Ocean Springs Middle School , Ocean Springs School District Petal High School , Petal School District Mississippi Code37-23-147. State performance goals for children with disabilities; special recognition of schools providing full inclusion of children with disabilities.	Funding for Mississippi Programs FY 2007 State allocations for the following programs are now final. Fiscal Year 2001-2008 State Tables for the U.S. Department of Education State tables by program in PDF [272K] and EXCEL [3.1MB] State tables by State in PDF [521K] and EXCEL [4.8MB]
State Performance Plan (SPP) Resource Guid Mississippi Part B State Performance Plan for 2005-2010 PDF This plan is marked DRAFT and we are not sure if this is the revised state performance plan referred to in the letter from the U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Education's monitoring review of Mississippi's State's FFY 2005 APR and revised SPP, other State-reported data, information obtained through monitoring visits, and other public information. June 15, 2007 Report Part B State Performance Plans (SPP) Letters and Annual Performance Report (APR) Letters Mississippi OSEP Response to SPP/APR MS Word (33K) \| PDF (1053K) Table MS Word (76K) \| PDF (59K) State Goals Compared to Mattie T Goals http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/special_education/pdfs/ StateGoalsMTGoals.pdf	The NationalPost-SchoolOutcomesCenter http://www.psocenter.org/ NPSO State Profile Database. Profiles include: a description of how each state currently collects and uses post-school outcome data, state contacts, links to related state materials (e.g. Web sites, survey instruments, reports) and much more! Check it out! Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Special Education Post-School Outcome Survey Form Mississippi’s Exit Data for 2005 http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/special%5Feducation/xls/ PostSecondary2005ToPost.xls EXIT FROM SCHOOL (2005) Percent Exit with a standard High School Diploma... 20.78% Percent Exit with GED 0.34% Percent Exit with Mississippi Occupational Diploma... 2.87% Percent Exit with a Certificate of Achievement... 38.86% Percent Exit as Drop Out... 36.73% Percent Exit by Reaching Maximum Age... 0.23% Percent Exit - Death... 0.20% Language/Speech Impaired (L/S) 24.65% Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) 51.39%
MS-PTI Mississippi Parent Training & Information Center The purpose of these Centers is to help provide training and information to meet the needs of parents of children with disabilities living in the area served by the center. Charlene Comstock-Galagan Project Director ccg@mscoalition.com .	Mississippi Advocacy and Protection The mission of Mississippi Protection and Advocacy System, Inc. is to protect and advocate for the legal and human rights of all persons with disabilities and to assist them with full inclusion in home, community, education and employment.
Mississippi Center for Justice	MDE Office of Special Education should publish an annual special education report … Washington Annual Special Education Report http://www.k12.wa.us/SpecialEd/pubdocs/annual_report.pdf .
A GREAT IEP FORM TO GO BY This is the best IEP form I have seen!!!	Every child has a fundamental civil right to an appropriate education SpEdWatch.pdf .
"If it was not written down, it was not said. If it was not written down, it did not happen."-- Pete Wright Parent Advocacy: Letters, Documents & Paper Trails The Art of Writing Letters by Pamela Wright, MA, MSW 12 Rules for Writing GREAT Letters by Pamela Wright Tactics & Strategy: The "Letter to a Stranger" by Janie Bowman and Pete Wright	Back to School on Civil Rights National Council on Disability January 25, 2000.pdf file Failures to ensure local compliance with Part B requirements continue to be widespread and persist over many years. Enforcement of the law is too often the burden of parents who must invoke formal complaint procedures and request due process hearings to obtain the services and supports to which their children are entitled under law.
NICHCY's training modules online for the Building the Legacy training curriculum on IDEA, our nation’s special education law.	Federal Education Funds Unspent by States.pdf for 2000-2002 Fiscal Year: Available and % Not Spent (as of 01/06/2004)
Dropout Prevention for Students With Disabilities.pdf: A Critical Issue for State Education Agencies	Individualized Education Program (IEP) 72 Checklist.pdf This is an old document but can be modified to IDEA 2004
. Job Coach Technical Assistance Guide.pdf Nebraska Department of Education.	Rebutting Rowley? Independence and Self-Sufficiency Are New Standards for FAPE by Peter W. D. Wright, Esq. & Pamela Wright, MA, MSW UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE.pdf
A GREAT PRINT OUT FOR PARENTS.pdf Specifically designed Instruction Modification Resource Chart	SDI (Specially Designed Instruction) Manual.pdf
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