Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities--National Center on Rigorous Comprehensive Education for Students with Disabilities

Overview

The purpose of the Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program is to promote academic achievement and to improve results for children with disabilities by providing TA, supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research.

This competition includes one absolute priority. This priority is: The National Center on Rigorous Comprehensive Education for Students with Disabilities. 

The purpose of this priority is to fund a cooperative agreement to establish and operate a National Center on Rigorous Comprehensive Education for Students with Disabilities (project). The project will assist public, private, charter, Tribal, and correctional school teams, including administration, general and special education, related services, families, the community, and, to the extent possible, students, to increase the number and quality of evidence-based IEPs with person-centered, rigorous objectives, the implementation of which will support the progress of students with disabilities from grade to grade and preparation for postsecondary education, employment, and community living. 

The project must achieve, at a minimum, the following expected outcomes: (a) Support of school teams to achieve consistent implementation of person-centered specially designed instruction, related services, and accommodations consistent with the students’ IEPs and through use of evidence-based and best instructional practices to allow students with disabilities to achieve person-centered, rigorous objectives; (b) Development and use of models for streamlining, braiding, blending, and integrating instructional materials, standards, initiatives, frameworks, priorities, and practices into a cohesive school-wide program easing professional burden while simultaneously raising school team expectations of students with disabilities to achieve person-centered, rigorous objectives; (c) Development and increased use of evidence-based strategies, resources, and supports that allow schools to provide rigorous educational programming to prepare students with disabilities for postsecondary education, employment, and community living; and (d) Support of school teams to achieve improved equity of access, opportunities, achievement, attainment, and outcomes, including academic achievement and social, emotional, and behavioral development by students with disabilities as a whole group and among disaggregated groups.