| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Create valid state tests for students with disabilities that are consistent with IEP benchmarks for meeting state standards. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Identify struggling schools on continuum of success, target assistance to highest need students and tailor accountability systems to needs of students with disabilities and ELL students. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Allow IEP teams to determine students with disabilities' participation in state assessments. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Fund better assessments for students with disabilities and ELL students. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Maintain Education Department’s 1% policy on alternative standards and assessments for students with severe cognitive disabilities and reduce cap to 1% of students assessed against modified standards. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Strengthen procedures for determining which students with disabilities should use alternative assessments and standards or be assessed against modified standards. |
| SWD 3 - Summary of Recommendation |
Target federal funds to alternate assessments for students with disabilities and ELL students. |
| SWD 4 - Summary of Recommendation |
Ensure migrant students with disabilities receive evaluations and services under IDEA. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Include students with disabilities in state assessment and accountability systems based on ambitious but educationally sound goals and measures. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Permit alternate assessments measured against alternate/modified standards based on individualized growth expectations for students with disabilities. |
| SWD 3 - Summary of Recommendation |
Continue to count students with disabilities' performance in that AYP subgroup for appropriate period once they transfer out. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Reconcile differences between NCLB and IDEA. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Accommodate for different achievement rates and levels of some students with disabilities. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
No recommendations identified for this issue. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
No recommendations identified for this issue. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Include students with disabilities' IEP achievement goals in student/school success determinations for AYP. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Use growth models to assess student with disabilities' achievement. |
| SWD 3 - Summary of Recommendation |
Assess students with disabilities at level they are taught even if differs from grade level. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Allow states to count students with disabilities in AYP who successfully complete their IEPs. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Accept state high school "exit" documents for students with disabilities until they are 21 years old. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Expand alternative assessments for students with disabilities that are counted for AYP. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Recognize IDEA takes precedence over NCLB for students with disabilities. Allow states to use IEPs to determine curriculum, standards and assessments for students with disabilities. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Allow states to determine percentage of students with disabilities for whom out-of-level standards and tests should be used, based on IEPs. |
| SWD 3 - Summary of Recommendation |
Allow states to set separate starting points and AYP projection paths for students with disabilities. |
| SWD 4 - Summary of Recommendation |
Publicize states' option of setting different “n” sizes for student subgroups for AYP and reporting purposes. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Ensure assessments are appropriate, valid and reliable for all groups of students, including students with disabilities and ELL students. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Provide funding for appropriate assessments for students with disabilities and ELL students. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Refine AYP to reflect the academic progress of students with disabilities. |
| SWD 1 - Summary of Recommendation |
Offer alternative assessments, based on IEP, to students with disabilities for AYP purposes. |
| SWD 2 - Summary of Recommendation |
Limit percentage of students with disabilities whose alternative assessment score counted as meeting AYP to 3% of total students assessed. |
| SWD 3 - Summary of Recommendation |
Allow students with disabilities' alternate assessments to include out of grade-level tests and base AYP on gain/growth or adjusted scores. |