State Performance Plan (SPP)

Public Law 108-446, Section 616(b), (IDEA 2004 http://idea.ed.gov) requires that no later than one year after the date of enactment (i.e., December 3, 2005), the State Department of Education must develop and submit a six year State Performance Plan to the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the U.S. Department of Education. OSEP has identified three monitoring priorities and 20 indicators relating to the priority areas. Indicators are statements that are used to help quantify and/or qualify a monitoring priority. For each of the indicators, the State must establish measurable and rigorous targets for improvement over a six-year period of time. These requirements will have significant data collection and reporting implications for the State and for every school district in the State. For more information on these federal requirements, go to www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/bapr/index.html

As a result of requirements in the reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Wisconsin Department of Education (WDPI) has developed a special education State Performance Plan (SPP). The SPP is designed to evaluate the State's efforts to implement the requirements and purposes of IDEA and describe how the State will improve its implementation. The SPP represents WDPI’s six-year plan for improving outcomes of the children with disabilities in Wisconsin. Through an Annual Performance Report (APR), WDPI will measure and report on the performance of children with disabilities using the 20 SPP Indicators, which focus on the outcome of students with disabilities. Included with each indicator is baseline data, a description of the data collection system, rigorous and measurable targets, and strategies for improving outcomes. The WDPI SPP can be reviewed at http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/pdf/completespp.pdf. For many of the indicators, WDPI has established mechanisms to collect the required data (For information on specific Indicators, go to: http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/spp.html.

Indicator #14 - Post High School Outcomes

Indicator #14: "The percentage of youth who had IEPs, are no longer in secondary school and who have been competitively employed, enrolled in some type of postsecondary school, or both, within one year of leaving high school." 20 U.S.C 1416(a)(3)(B)

In response to the new SPP Indicator #14, the WDPI has awarded a discretionary grant to CESA #11 to continue the development of the Wisconsin Post High Outcomes Survey (WPHSOS) website: www.posthighsurvey.org . The Post High School Outcomes website is a tool designed to ensure consistency in data collection and reporting, and was developed to assist LEAs with the outcomes Indicator #14 data collection requirement. Between 2006-07 and 2012-13 school years, every district in Wisconsin will be required to participate in the WPHSOS once, and Milwaukee Public School will participate annually.

http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/spp-cycle-actions.html