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  • EDFacts Special Education/IDEA, 2011-12

    Metadata Updated: November 10, 2020

    EDFacts Special Education/IDEA, 2011-12 (EDFacts SE/IDEA:2011-12), is one of 17 'topics' identified in the EDFacts documentation (in this database, each 'topic' is entered as a separate study); program data is available since 2005 at . EDFacts SE/IDEA:2011-12 (ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts) annually collects cross-sectional data from states about students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as amended, and special education programs and their staff at the LEA and state levels. EDFacts SE/IDEA:2011-12 data were collected using the EDFacts Submission System (ESS), a centralized portal and their submission by states is mandatory and required for benefits. Not submitting the required reports by a state constitutes a failure to comply with law and may have consequences for federal funding to the state. Key statistics produced from EDFacts SE/IDEA:2011-12 are from 14 data groups with information on IDEA - Student Count - Early Childhood, IDEA - Student Count - School Age, IDEA - Alternate Assessment Caps (1%/2%), IDEA - Not Participating in Assessments, IDEA - Exiting Special Education, IDEA - Suspensions/Expulsions, IDEA - Disciplinary Removals, IDEA - Total Disciplinary Removals, IDEA - Removal to Interim Alternative Educational Setting, IDEA - Reasons for Unilateral Removal, Educational Services During Expulsion, Special Education Teachers (FTE), Special Education Paraprofessionals (FTE), Special Education Related Services Personnel. For the purposes of this system, data groups are referred to as 'variables', as a result of the structure and format of EDFacts' data.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Education JSON

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 10, 2020
    Publisher Office of Special Education Programs
    Maintainer
    Identifier OPEPD_2012014
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2016-09-27
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 018:20
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www2.ed.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 06043628-48ed-4412-bae2-d66f94d5e486
    Harvest Source Id 2a5c4dd8-eda9-4f03-abc3-fff8cfb80fc6
    Harvest Source Title Education JSON
    Homepage URL https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/index.html
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 018:000
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department of Education > Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services > Office of Special Education Programs
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8821dfcdee688928def9171a127f0417b3e8c205
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial United States
    Temporal 2012/2013

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