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State Performance Plan (SPP)
Public Law 108-446, Section 616(b), (IDEA 2004 http://www.ideareauth.com)
requires that no later than one year after the date of enactment
(i.e., December 3, 2005), the State Department of Education
must develop and submit a six year State Performance Plan to
the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the U.S.
Department of Education. OSEP has identified three monitoring
priorities and 20 indicators relating to the priority areas.
Indicators are statements that are used to help quantify and/or
qualify a monitoring priority. For each of the indicators, the
State must establish measurable and rigorous targets for improvement
over a six-year period of time. These requirements will have
significant data collection and reporting implications for the
State and for every school district in the State. For more information
on these federal requirements, go to www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/bapr/index.html
As a result of requirements in the reauthorized Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Utah State Office
of Education (USOE) has developed a special education State
Performance Plan (SPP). The SPP is designed to evaluate the
State's efforts to implement the requirements and purposes of
IDEA and describe how the State will improve its implementation.
The SPP represents USOE's six-year plan for improving outcomes
of the children with disabilities in Utah. Through an Annual
Performance Report (APR), USOE will measure and report on the
performance of children with disabilities using the 20 SPP Indicators,
which focus on the outcome of students with disabilities. Included
with each indicator is baseline data, a description of the data
collection system, rigorous and measurable targets, and strategies
for improving outcomes. The USOE (Utah State Office of Education)
SPP can be reviewed a
http://www.schools.utah.gov/sars/lawsregs/pdfs/utspp.pdf.
For many of the indicators, USOE has established mechanisms
to collect the required data (For information on specific Indicators,
go to: http://www.schools.utah.gov/sars/lawsregs/upips.htm
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