The Special Education Audit Handbook

Whether you are a superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or director of special education, you need to demonstrate that all aspects of the special education program are well administered and worth every penny spent. This volume will help you to determine: · Referral patterns by school, grade, gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic and family status · The degree to which principals, psychologists, committee on special education members (CSE), and classroom teachers were knowledgeable about criteria for classification, mainstreaming, and declassification of students · The linkage between the general curriculum and the curriculum for self-contained special education classes · Reasons for declassification and profiles of declassified students · And much more! Includes findings from audits and usable information about the nuts and bolts of the management and operation of special education programs.