Welcome to the Utah Post High School
Outcomes Survey Website

The Utah State Office of Education is committed to identifying and responding to the needs of students with disabilities. To that end, it is necessary to document the post high school outcomes of students with disabilities, and to use that information to make programming and planning decisions to improve education and transition services for students, and ultimately improve post high school outcomes.

The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) requires states to develop a State Performance Plan (SPP), describing a 6 year plan to address three monitoring priorities and twenty indicators for students with disabilities, with the Annual Progress Report (APR). The APR is submitted annually to document progress toward addressing those priorities and indicators.

Indicator 14 of the SPP requires that states report the percentage of students who have had IEPs and have left school and who have been employed or enrolled in post-secondary education programs at any time during the previous year. Student "leavers" are those who have either graduated with a diploma, reached maximum age, dropped out during the school year, or did not return to school for the current year.

The Utah State Office of Education - Special Education (USOE SpEd) has developed a telephone survey that will be administered to all students over 14 years of age, who were served under IEPs and exited during the 2005-06 school year or who failed to return for the 2006-07 school year. Data will be collected April through September 2007 and reported in the APR due to OSEP February 1, 2008. Disaggregated LEA data will be posted on the USOE SpEd website in Spring 2008. Data from LEAs with small numbers of "leavers" will be aggregated to avoid posting personally identifiable information.