Special Education Services
Overview
The Illinois State Board of Education partners with school districts to provide programs and services for students with specialized educational needs.
Special Education Services assures that these programs and services meet state and federal requirements. This involves both compliance and technical assistance functions. Compliance functions include monitoring least restrictive environment compliance, administering due process system, providing mediation services, conducting compliant investigations, approving policies and procedures, conducting focused and comprehensive reviews and approving nonpublic special education facilities. Technical assistance functions involve providing information and guidance on promising practices in educating students with disabilities, including the operation of numerous statewide training and technical assistance initiatives, administering the comprehensive system of personnel development for special education and management of grant programs to schools for special education service delivery.
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What's New
- Second Annual Conference
on Best Practices
November 20-21, 2008
Call for Presenters - Registration is open for the 2008 Transition Conference
- Memorandum #08: Development of IEPs for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders (Implementation of Public Act 095-0257)
- Autism Considerations for IEP
- LEA Determinations
- IDEA Part B Annual State Application
- 2006 Annual State Report on Special Education Performance
- Procedural
Guidance for School Districts Withdrawing from a Special Education
Joint Agreement
- Disproportionate Representation
- Required Notice and Consent Forms (Arabic, English, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Gujarati) (Updated 1/08)
- State Performance Plan, Part B—Years 2005-2010 (Revised April 14, 2008)
- Annual Performance Report (Revised April 14, 2008)
- Exception to the 1.0 Percent Cap on Progressing and Attaining Scores Based on Alternate Achievement Standards to be Included in the Calculation of District AYP for the 2007-08 School Year Request