Results Driven Accountability Effort – Question Five

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Guest Blogger

OSERS‘  Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)  appreciates the comments and suggestions posted in response to the RDA  questions one, two, three and four.

OSEP will accept comments on question 5 until November 9, 2012.

The Office of Special Education Programs’ (OSEP’s) vision for Results-Driven Accountability (RDA) is that OSEP will target its work and investments to best support states in improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. OSEP worked internally to develop a set of Core Principles to guide its RDA work.

Do you have  any comments or input on these RDA Core Principles?

Download RDA Core Principles:

The following core principles underlie and will guide OSEP’s RDA work:

  1. OSEP is developing the RDA system in partnership with our stakeholders.
  2. The RDA system is transparent and understandable to states and the general public, especially individuals with disabilities and their families.
  3. The RDA system drives improved outcomes for all children and youth with disabilities regardless of their age, disability, race/ethnicity, language, gender, socioeconomic status, or location.
  4. The RDA system ensures the protection of the individual rights of each child or youth with a disability and their families, regardless of his/her age, disability, race/ethnicity, language, gender, socioeconomic status, or location.
  5. The RDA system provides differentiated incentives, supports, and interventions based on each state’s unique strengths, progress, challenges, and needs.
  6. The RDA system encourages states to direct their resources to where they can have the greatest positive impact on outcomes and the protection of individual rights for all children and youth with disabilities, and minimizes state burden and duplication of effort.
  7. The RDA system is responsive to the needs and expectations of the ultimate consumers (i.e., children and youth with disabilities and their families) as they identify them.

Download the RDA Core Principles:

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One Response to Results Driven Accountability Effort – Question Five

  1. Joyce says:
    October 25, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Perhaps Principle 2, (transparent and understandable) might include how “accountability” will be expressed – i.e. in what form and how often will results be made available to the public

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