"Getting Down to Facts" is a research project of more than 20 studies designed to provide comprehensive information about the status of California’s school finance and governance systems. AIR conducted four studies for this project:
- Successful California Schools in the Context of Educational Adequacy
- Charter Schools in California: A Review of their Autonomy and Resources Allocation Practices
- Efficiency and Adequacy in California School Finance: A Professional Judgment Approach
- Considering Special Education Adequacy in California
Reports for these studies can be downloaded from Stanford University’s Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (IREPP).
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For more background on the Getting Down to Facts Project, click here.
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| Special Education Funding In North Dakota: An Assessment of Current Practice and Recommendations for the Future - July 2006 |
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| Reconsidering Special Education Funding in Georgia - June 2005 |
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| The New York Adequacy Study: Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education – March 2004 |
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Study to Measure the Delivery of Services in Accordance with the Individualized Education Programs of Students with Disabilities in the Los Angeles Unified School District (465 KB) — June
2004
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California Study of Incidence of Disabilities (774 KB) — September
2003
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| California
Study of Incidence of Disabilities (658 KB) — September 1998
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Financing
(or the Cost of) Special Education, [Thomas Parrish, at the Education
Writers Association Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee (559 KB) — October 2003
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Special Education in the City - How Has the Money Been Spent and What
Do We Have to Show for It? [Tom Parrish and Catherine Bitter, in the
Journal of Special Education Leadership, 16(1)] — May 2003
(Not available online)
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| The
Effects of Funding Incentives on Special Education Enrollment [No.
32 Civic Report, Drs. Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster, Manhattan Institute
for Policy Research] (64 KB) — December 2002
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Dr.
Thomas Parrish's reply to this report (www.specialedconnection.com/LRP
publications) (10 KB) — December 2002
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Study of the Kentucky Schools for the Deaf and Blind and Services
for All Students Who are Sensory Impaired (656 KB) — June 2002
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| New
Era: Revitalizing Special Education for Children and their Families
[Report of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education]
(326 KB) — January 2002
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| Special
Education in an Era of School Reform: Special Education Finance [Thomas
B. Parrish] (236 KB) — June 2001
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The Journal of Special
Education Leadership, Volume 14 (1)— April 2001
CSEF Director Tom Parrish served as guest editor of this issues focused
on special education finance.
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| Policies,
Procedures, and Practices Affecting the Education of Children Residing
in Group Homes (1,001 KB) [AIR Report to California Department of
Education] — June 2003
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Education
of Foster Group Home Children, Whose Responsibility Is It? [AIR Report
to California Department of Education] (304 KB) — January 2001
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Racial Disparities in the Identification, Funding, and Provision of
Special Education. [Dr. Tom Parrish, (2002), In D. Losen & G. Orfield
(Eds.), Racial Inequity in Special Education (pp. 15-37). Cambridge,
MA: Harvard Education Press.] (Not available online)
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