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People often refer to education-related topics by different terms. Recognizing this, we’ve listed many such terms below, all with links to the appropriate information on our site.

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    A

• A Guide to the ARD Process (ARD Guide)
• Academic Achievement Record
• Adequate Yearly Progress
• Agency Participation in ARD Meeting Guidance
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Technical Assistance Program
• Annual Performance Report
• Annual State Application
• ARD Decision-Making Process for the Texas Assessment Program
• Assessment
• Assistive Technology
• Assistive Technology Devices (Uniform Transfer Agreement Form)
• Auditory and/or Visual Impairments (AI/VI) Memorandum of Understanding

    B

• Beyond ECI (English) | (Spanish)
• Blindness or Visual Impairments
• Bullying

    C

• Career and Technology Education (CTE) and Special Education Questions and Answers 
• Charter Schools
• Commissioner's Rules for Special Education (Currently in Effect)
• Community Parent Resource Centers
• Community Resources Coordination Groups (CRCGs)
• Complaint Investigation Guidance
• Continuing Advisory Committee for Special Education
• Coordinated Early Intervening Services
• Correspondence from the Texas Education Agency

    D

• Data Book, Special Education
• Data Reports (SPEARS)
• DeafBlind (DB)
• Deaf Services
• Determinations, Local Education Agency
• Determination, State
• Discipline (TBS)
• Discipline and School Removals
• Disproportionate Representation and Significant Disproportionality
• Dispute Resolution Processes
• Dispute Resolution Systems Handbook 
• District Profiles (State Performance Plan Indicators)
• Due Process Hearings (Hearings Decisions)
• Dyslexia

    E

• Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) Services
• Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Guidance
• Early Intervening Services (EIS) Guidance
• Early Transition Guidance
• Early Transition MOU
• Education Service Center Special Education Contacts
• Educator Resources for Special Education Certification and Professional Development
• Evaluation of Learning Disability (LD) Eligibility
• Excess Cost
• Extended School Year Services for Students with Disabilities

    F  

• Federal Regulations (IDEA)
• Funding

    G

• Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities
• Grade Placement Committee Manual (Student Success Initiative)
• Graduation
• Guidance (First Point of Contact for State Guidance on Special Education)

    H

• Hearing Decisions (Due Process Hearings)  
• High Cost Funds
• Higher Education Collaborative  
• Highly Qualified Teachers and Special Education 
• Homelessness

    I

• IEP Model Form 
• Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), Evaluations, and Reevaluations Questions and Answers
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• IDEA Reauthorization 2004 (Federal Statute, effective July 1, 2005)
• IDEA Reauthorization 2004 (Federal Regulations, effective October 13, 2006)
• In-school Mental Health Services Resources  
• Instructional Decision-Making Procedures for Ensuring Appropriate Instruction for Struggling Students

    K

• Key Elements of Early Transition (Part C Part B)

    L

• Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Educational Process
• Local Education Agency Determinations
• Local Education Agency Public Reporting

    M

• Maintenance of Effort (MOE)
• Mediation Process  
• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
• Mental Health Services Resources (TxCEDS)  
• Monitoring, State  

    N

• No Child Left Behind  
• Noneducational Community-Based Support Services
• Non-Categorical Early Childhood (NCEC)
• Nonpublic Day School Report (SPE-106) 
• Nonpublic Schools for Students with Disabilities Approved for Contracting Purposes  

    O

• Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)  
• Open Enrollment Charter School Policy  

    P

• Parent Information Line
• Parent Resources (Texas Project First Website)
• Parent Revocation Q & A   
• Parent Survey Results  
• Parent Training and Information Projects
• Parent's Rights (Procedural Safeguards) Document
• Positive Behavior Support  
• Preschool Programs for Children with Disabilities (Services for students with disabilities 3-5) 
• Prior Written Notice 
• Private School Guidance
• Procedural Safeguards
• Proportionate Share Calculation
• Public Meetings (Texas Continuing Improvement Process)

    R

• Reading First Initiative  
• Reading Initiative  
• Reading Links
• Reauthorization of IDEA, 2004
• Related Services Resource
• Residential Application
• Resources for Parents (Texas Project First Website)
• Resources to Support Students Access to General Curriculum
• Restraint Reporting Form 
• Response to Intervention (RtI)
• Review of Existing Evaluation Data (REED)
• Rules and Regulations

    S

• School Health and Related Services (SHARS)
• Schoolwide Programs  
• Secondary Transition
• Section 504  
• Services for Students who are DeafBlind (DB)
• Services for Students with Disabilities Ages 3-5
• Shared Services Arrangements
• Special EducationAd Hoc Reporting System (SPEARS)
• Special Education Forms
• Special Education Rules and Regulations (Side-by-Side document)
• Staff Development Guidance
• Standards-Based IEPs
• State Board of Education Rules for Special Education
• State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC)  
• State Determinations
• State Guidance
• State Laws for Special Education
• State Performance Plan
• State Plan for Students with Auditory Impairments (State Deaf and Hard of Hearing Plan)
• State Plan for Students with Visual Impairments (State VI Plan)
• Statewide Leadership Functions and Projects
• Student Handbook Statements
• Student Success Initiative
• Students with Visual Impairments | TEA Forms

    T

• Teacher Certification (at the State Board of Educator Certification)  
• Teacher Reading Academies (Online)
• Temporary Absences of Students with Disabilities
• Texas Administrative Code (TAC) | State Board of Education Rules
• Texas Assistive Technology Network  
• Texas Behavior Support Initiative  
• Texas Continuous Improvement Process
• Texas Education Code: State Laws  
• Texas IDEA Eligibility Document
• Texas Project First (Resources for Parents)  
• Texas Reading First Initiative 
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired  
• Texas School for the Deaf  
• Three-Tier Reading Model  
• Transition
• Transition in Texas: A Resource for Students Receiving Special Education  
• Traumatic Brain Injury 

    U

• Uniform Transfer Agreement Form for Assistive Technology Devices

    V

• Visual Impairments

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