1. Special Education Leadership Network Meeting
February 14, 2008

2. Agenda Welcome and Celebrations Legal Update Legal Framework Overview
Disproportionality Focus Group
SPP Indicator # 7 New Information
SPP Indicator # 14
ARD/LPAC Clarification
TCASE Update
To Do List

3. Walsh, Anderson, Brown, Schulze & Aldridge, P.C.
Legal Update
Denise Hays
Walsh, Anderson, Brown, Schulze & Aldridge, P.C.

4. Legal Framework Overview
Martha Blanton

5. What’s new? Deadline of February 1, 2008
Districts – deadline for electronically submitting policies via the Legal Framework
Charter Schools – deadline for revisions and uploading to new frameworks

6. Next…
Documents in Resource Library have not been updated to the newly adopted Commissioners Rules
Region 18’s stakeholder team meeting in April to begin work

7. Upcoming workshop The Legal Framework April 28, 2008 (9am-noon)SP
Who should attend? Special education staff, ARD facilitators, Evaluation Personnel (LSSPs, Diagnosticians)

8. Remember “forms”? Use the Documentation Tool Box to:
develop documents (aka forms)
check current documents
modify documents
NEW – Authorized LEA account holder can access them through Administrator Login
Let’s go to the Region 18 website ---

9. Questions?

10. Disproportionality Focus Group
Stephaine Camarillo

11. SPP Indicator 7 New Information
Brenda Bush

12. SPP Indicator 14
Shirley Sanford

13. SPP Indicator 14 Spring 2008 TEX Survey 06-07 Survey
ESC 11 will notify LEAs for grade 12 exit survey
LEAs will follow Indicator 13 sampling
LEAs will collect the data
06-07 Survey
ESC 11 will follow up on the post school survey from students surveyed last year in the grade 12 exit.
Both surveys will be a shortened version

14. SPP Indicator 14
LEAs may volunteer to participate in the lengthier TES longitudinal survey.
ESC 11 will provide financial support through mini grants for the LEAs that volunteer.

15. ARD/LPAC Clarification
Stephaine Camarillo
Yvette Alvarado
Janet O’Keefe

16. LEA Data What data to collect? As of? SSA’s separate or as a total?
What else?

17. TCASE Update
Martie Rodriguez

18. Announcements & To Do List