The Education of Children in Private Schools: A State Agency's Perspective

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Grumet ◽  
Thom Inkpen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Least Restrictive Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
State Education Agency ◽  
State Education ◽  
State Education Department ◽  
Education Agency ◽  
Restrictive Environment

The State of New York has utilized the private school sector for the education of children with handicapping conditions for some 20 years. As a state education agency, New York has had many appeals to the Commissioner of Education. The appeals to the Commissioner form the interpretative policy basis for implementing P.L. 94–142 in New York. The decisions of the Commissioner are summarized with respect to (a) least restrictive environment, (b) placements made by parents, (c) untimely appeals, and (d) exhaustion. The monitoring efforts of the State Education Department regarding private schools are also discussed as are the reasons for the state's prohibition on contracting with many private schools.

Private School Placement: A Local Director's Perspective

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Audette
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Least Restrictive Environment ◽  
Private Placement ◽  
State Education ◽  
Private Placements ◽  
Education Agency ◽  
Proper Perspective ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
Local Programming

The consideration of private placement for a handicapped student's educational program by a local special services director can often be a complex deliberation. The irony of increased private placements for mild/moderately handicapped students, on the heels of landmark court cases mandating deinstitutionalization of programs for the handicapped (PARC, 1971; Mills, 1972), warrants a scrutiny of the interpretation and implementation of P.L. 94–142. Definitions of concepts such as “appropriate education” and “least restrictive environment” must be resolved. Problems of tuition rates, transportation costs, and due process activities are dilemmas which often accompany the issue of a private placement. Local education agency emphasis on well-developed local programming along with state education agency monitoring vigilance of federal regulations pertaining to least restrictive environment issues can provide a proper perspective to the question of private placement.

Research and practice, meet the state education agency

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (7) ◽  
pp. 30-33
Author(s):  
Carrie Conaway
Keyword(s):  
Policy Design ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
State Education Agency ◽  
State Education ◽  
Education Agency ◽  
Advance Research

State education agencies play critically important roles in promoting research use in education. They influence policy design and implementation, collect data about schools and districts, and can use their statewide reach to advance research use within the state agency and in districts. As Carrie Conaway explains, the states that have done the most to advance research use for systems improvement have built research infrastructures, used both existing research and local data to spur improvement, and formed close partnerships with researchers.

The Role of Environment in System Change

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
William E. Webster
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
The State ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
School Systems ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Local School ◽  
State Education ◽  
State Education Department

An important element of New York State Project Redesign, a statewide improvement effort, has been to change the relationships between the State Education Department and local school systems participating in the effort. By changing these relationships from a solely regulatory, supervisory stance to a collaborative, problem solving mode has changed the environment of the local school systems and the State Education Department. In this way both systems are changing.

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