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Improving Special Education Services (ISES) & State Performance and Personnel Development Plan (SPPDP)

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as amended in 2004, made changes to how the state education agency measures and reports outcomes to the United States Department of Education (ED). The State Performance Plan (SPP) describes how the state will meet these new requirements. The SPP, a six-year plan for special education, is approved by the State Board of Education and is updated annually through the Annual Performance Report (APR).

All state level planning in special education needs to be tied to the SPP. Specifically the SPDG requires alignment to the SPP and the State Plan for No Child Left Behind. By way of example, States applying for competitively awarded SPDG funds are required to address needs identified through the SPP and the APR proccess.

Previously CDE has relied on several diverse planning groups to address such things as personnel development, monitoring and accountability, and fiscal management. It became apparent that all of these groups should become part of a unified planning process guided by the SPP. In January of 2007, CDE, along with the required partners reconstituted the scope and function of the Partnership Committee on Special Education (PCSE) and the Key Performance Indicator Stakeholder Committee (KPISC).

The California Department of Education combined the members of the two former planning groups and created the Improving Special Education Services (ISES): Through Planning, Personnel Development, and Performance Reporting Group. The ISES group meets two times per year.

For more information regarding the work of the ISES, please see related links below:

Resources

  • Annual Performance Report, February 2008
    The latest draft of this document will be made available in hard copy at the ISES meeting on June 3rd and available online once it has received OSEP approval.
  • OSEP Objectives
    SPDG objectives and performance measures as required by the Office of Special Education Program (OSEP).
    View objectives adobe acrobat (57kb) –HTML version

  • SIG Activites Evaluation Report

    The partners involved in California’s State Improvement Grant (SIG) effort undertook a broad range of activities to improve special education outcomes and services in California by implementing activities directed at personnel development, family education, and systems change.
    SIG/CalSTAT Activities Evaluation Summary Report 1999-2005     adobe acrobat (2.59mb) – HTML version