Special Education Services
Overview
The Illinois State Board of Education partners with school districts to provide programs and services for students with specialized educational needs.
Special Education Services assures that these programs and services meet state and federal requirements. This involves both compliance and technical assistance functions. Compliance functions include monitoring least restrictive environment compliance, administering due process system, providing mediation services, conducting compliant investigations, approving policies and procedures, conducting focused and comprehensive reviews and approving nonpublic special education facilities. Technical assistance functions involve providing information and guidance on promising practices in educating students with disabilities, including the operation of numerous statewide training and technical assistance initiatives, administering the comprehensive system of personnel development for special education and management of grant programs to schools for special education service delivery.
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What's New
- Planning Calendar for 2010-2011
(February 2010) (February 19, 2010) (April 1, 2010) (revised February 1, 2010)This year’s focused monitoring cycle will again focus on the placement determination of students with disabilities. The Educational Environment (EE) data that is entered in the Funding and Child Tracking System (FACTS) is utilized to determine the districts that will receive an on-site review for focused monitoring. Therefore, we strongly recommend that districts review and verify the accuracy of their FACTS data prior to final submission.
