IDEA
What is the IDEA program and what can its funds be used for?
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) funds are made available to assist in meeting the costs of providing special education and related services to children with disabilities. Funds under this program provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to children with disabilities. Permitted expenditures include the salaries of special education teachers and costs associated with related services personnel, such as speech therapists and psychologists, materials and interventions for use with students, and evaluation and monitoring costs. Up to 15% may be spent for early intervening services.
How much extra funding will IDEA receive under ARRA?
IDEA will receive an additional $11.3 billion in funding for school-aged children with disabilities.
Which Gale products align with the requirements for ARRA's IDEA funding?
IDEA works to ensure that children with disabilities, including children aged three through five, have access to a free appropriate public education to meet each child's unique needs and prepare him or her for further education, employment, and independent living
In support of this goal, all Gale Web-based curriculum resources include ReadSpeaker technology, which provides text-to-speech functionality, effective for students with disabilities. The technology allows students to listen to all content and download the audio in MP3 format.
In addition, Gale Professional Development resources provide educators 24/7, unlimited, simultaneous access to proven strategies that work in the classroom. Gale has partnered with leading publishers like ASCD and Linworth to bring the highest quality professional development tools focused on students with disabilities. Titles include:
- Brain-Friendly Strategies For The Inclusion Classroom
- The Differentiated Classroom: Responding To The Needs Of All Learning
- Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Establish or expand fiscally sustainable extended learning opportunities for students in targeted assistance programs
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Use technology to help students improve achievement
- Students become technology literate by end of 8th grade
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Obtain state-of-the art assistive technology devices and provide training in their use to enhance access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Identify and train highly effective teachers for schoolwide programs
Establish intensive, year-long teacher training for all teachers and the principals in an elementary school
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Professional development – how to use technology effectively to improve teaching and learning
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Provide intensive, district-wide professional development for special education and regular education teachers
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Focus funds on short-term investments with the potential for long-term benefits
- Increase teacher effectiveness and address inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers for all students, particularly students who are most in need
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Identify and train highly effective teachers for schoolwide programs
- Establish intensive, year-long teacher training for all teachers and the principals in an elementary school
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Professional development – how to use technology effectively to improve teaching and learning
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Provide intensive, district-wide professional development for special education and regular education teachers
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Increase teacher effectiveness and address inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers for all students, particularly students who are most in need
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Provide new opportunities for schoolwide programs for secondary school students to use high-quality, online courseware as supplemental learning materials in science and math
- Establish or expand fiscally sustainable extended learning opportunities for students in targeted assistance programs
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Use technology to help students improve achievement
Help students become technology literate by end of 8th grade
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Obtain state-of-the art assistive technology devices and provide training in their use to enhance access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Increase teacher effectiveness and address inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers for all students, particularly students who are most in need
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Identify and train highly effective teachers for schoolwide programs
- Establish intensive, year-long teacher training for all teachers and the principals in an elementary school
- Establish or expand fiscally sustainable extended learning opportunities for students in targeted assistance programs
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Use technology to help students improve achievement
- Help students become technology literate by end of 8th grade
- Professional development – how to use technology effectively to improve teaching and learning
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Obtain state-of-the art assistive technology devices and provide training in their use to enhance access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities
- Provide intensive, district–wide professional development for special education and regular education teachers
|
REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Focus funds on short-term investments with the potential for long-term benefits
- Increase teacher effectiveness and address inequities in the distribution of highly qualified teachers for all students, particularly students who are most in need
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Provide new opportunities for schoolwide programs for secondary school students to use high-quality, online courseware as supplemental learning materials in science and math
- Establish or expand fiscally sustainable extended learning opportunities for students in targeted assistance programs
|
REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Use technology to help students improve achievement
- Help students become technology literate by end of 8th grade
|
REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Obtain state-of-the art assistive technology devices and provide training in their use to enhance access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Establish or expand fiscally sustainable extended learning opportunities for students in targeted assistance programs
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Use technology to help students improve achievement
- Help students become technology literate by end of 8th grade
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Obtain state-of-the art assistive technology devices and provide training in their use to enhance access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Obtain state-of-the art assistive technology devices and provide training in their use to enhance access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Focus funds on short-term investments with the potential for long-term benefits
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Establish or expand fiscally sustainable extended learning opportunities for students in targeted assistance programs
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Focus funds on short-term investments with the potential for long-term benefits
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- Use technology to help students improve academic achievement
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REQUIRED CRITERIA:
- College- and career-ready standards and high-quality, valid and reliable assessments for all students
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