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IDEA Special Education Personnel Preparation Grants

The program provides funding to hire and train qualified personnel in special education and related services, early intervention, and regular education to work with children with disabilities.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • No independent evaluations of the program have been conducted to determine if this program is performing effectively.
  • The program does not have information to determine if it has been effective in helping institutions of higher education ensure that they produce qualified and well trained special education staff.
  • Although grantee performance data is collected on an annual basis, the program has not been able to make this information available to the public to judge how well the grantees are doing.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing a new program evaluation that will yield reliable information on how effectively the program achieves its key outcomes.
  • Taking steps to ensure that the public has access to grantee performance data from the Personnel Preparation Database at the Department of Education.
  • Ensuring that reliable and accurate data are collected for the program's new performance measures.

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