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Subject: Transition Services/State Performance
Plan/Checklist
Source: Barb Gilpin, Interim Assistant Director, Effective Practices
Intended Audience: Superintendents, Special Education Directors, Special
Education Teachers, General Education Teachers, Counselors, Principals
Date: May 23, 2007
As you know, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was
reauthorized on December 3, 2004, and its provisions became effective on
July 1, 2005. In conjunction with the reauthorization, the U. S. Department
of Education through the Office of Special Education Programs
(OSEP) required states to develop six-year State Performance Plans (SPP) in
December 2005 focusing on twenty indicators, on which data must be submitted
annually in Annual Performance Reports. See SELS messages dated April 9,
2007, and December 2, 2005, in the SELS archive under the "General" category
for more information on the SPP
http://dese.mo.gov/divspeced/Listserv_Archives.html.
Indicator #13 relates to transition services for students: "Percent of youth
aged 16 and above with an individualized education program (IEP) that
includes coordinated, measurable, annual IEP goals and transition services
that will reasonably enable the student to meet the post-secondary goals."
To help states collect data to meet Indicator 13, the National Secondary
Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) has developed the NSTTAC I-13
Checklist. The I-13 Checklist was approved by OSEP on September 8, 2006. The
NSTTAC I-13 Checklist is offered as an OSEP-approved resource for states to
use for data collection or to compare to their current monitoring system. We
encourage you to use this checklist as a guide to implementing transition
services. The checklist may be accessed at
http://www.nsttac.org.
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