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Appendix A.3. Sources: Department of Education
- Office for Civil Rights:
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services:
- Office of Vocational and Adult Education:
Office for Civil Rights
OCR Elementary and Secondary School Survey
The OCR Elementary and Secondary School Survey in the U.S. Department of Education is the instrument used by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to obtain trend data from the nation's public elementary and secondary schools. These surveys provide information about the enrollment of students in public schools in every state and about some educational services to those students. These data are reported by race/ethnicity, sex, and disability. Information collected in the E&S Surveys is collected pursuant to 34 C.F.R. Section 100.6(b) of Department of Education regulation implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The requirements are also incorporated by reference in Department regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975. The Department of Justice also has delegated OCR responsibility for enforcing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. School, district, state, and national data are currently available. The reported data from individual public schools and districts collected by the Elementary and Secondary School Survey were used to generate projected national and state data. In recent surveys, the sample has been approximately 6,000 districts and 60,000 schools; however, in 2000 all public school districts were sampled. In a sample survey the following districts are sampled with certainty: districts having more than 25,000 students; all districts in states having 25 or fewer public school districts; and districts subject to Federal Court Order and monitored by the U.S. Justice Department.
Further information on the Elementary and Secondary School Survey can be obtained from:
Mary Schifferli
Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Education
555 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20202
Mary.Schifferli@ed.gov
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Education of the Handicapped Act
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), formerly the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA), requires the Secretary of Education to transmit to Congress annually a report describing the progress in serving the nation's disabled children. The annual report contains information on children served by the public schools under the provisions of Part B of the IDEA and for children served in state-operated programs (SOP) for the handicapped under Chapter I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Statistics on children receiving special education and related services in various settings and school personnel providing such services are reported in an annual submission of data to the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), by the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the outlying areas. The child count information is based on the number of disabled children receiving special education and related services on December 1st of each year. Count information is available from http://www.ideadata.org.
Since each participant in programs for the disabled is reported to OSERS, the data are not subject to sampling error. However, nonsampling error can occur from a variety of sources. Some states follow a non-categorical approach to the delivery of special education services, but produce counts by disabling condition because EHA–B requires it. In those states that do categorize their disabled students, definitions and labeling practices vary.
Further information on the Annual Report to Congress may be obtained from:
Office of Special Education Programs
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
550 12th St., SW
Washington, DC 20065
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep/index.html
http://www.ideadata.org
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
Division of Adult Education and Literacy
The Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) promotes programs that help American adults get the basic skills they need to be productive workers, family members, and citizens. The major areas of support are Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education and English Language Acquisition. These programs emphasize basic skills such as reading, writing, math, English language competency and problem-solving. Each year DAEL reports enrollment numbers in state-administered adult education programs for these major areas of support for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and eight U.S. jurisdictions (American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas, Palau, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands).
Further information on DAEL may be obtained from:
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
Division of Adult Education and Literacy
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd/index.html
