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MONITORING
(Updated 10/19/2012)

The primary focus of state monitoring activities is on improving educational results and functional outcomes for all children with disabilities; and ensuring that local education agencies (LEA) meet the program requirements of Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEIA), with a particular emphasis on those requirements that are most closely related to improving educational results for children with disabilities. As a result, Vermont has a general supervision system that monitors implementation of IDEIA by early intervention programs and LEAs statewide. [IDEA 2004, Section 616(a)(2)]

Overall, Vermont’s general supervision system includes multiple methods to ensure implementation of IDEA 2004, identify and correct noncompliance, facilitate improvement, and support practices that improve results and functional outcomes for children and families.

• Compliance Monitoring
  Compliance monitoring involves a desk review of compliance indicators in the State Performaance Plan (SPP). Ten supervisory unions participate each year.

• Focused Monitoring
  Focused monitoring is a process that purposefully selects priority areas to examine for compliance based on student results while not specifically examining other areas for compliance to maximize resources, emphasize important variables, and increase the probability of improved results.

• Special Education & Special Education-related Rules
  Vermont's special education regulations and other pertinent regulations related to special education are contained in various sections of the Vermont State Board Manual of Rules and Practices. The Special Education Guide brings all references to special education related rules together in a single document and contains both a table of contents and an index for reference purposes.

Alicia Hanrahan, Monitoring Team Leader
(802) 828-3142 (P)
(802) 828-0573 (F)
alicia.hanrahan@state.vt.us

Ernest Wheeler, Special Education Consultant
(802) 828-0564 (P)
(802) 828-0573 (F)
ernest.wheeler@state.vt.us

Laura Baker
(802) 828-1285 (P)
(802) 828-0573 (F)
laura.baker@state.vt.us

Sharon Welch, Administrative Assistant
(802) 828-5126 (P)
(802) 828-0573 (F)
sharon.welch@state.vt.us

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