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Minority Overrepresentation and Special Education Discipline Issues II: Causes and Remediation

Client: Indiana Department of Education
Term: January 2001–January 2002

The Center proposed this project to extend the collaboration between the Center and the Indiana State Department of Education to provide data that would increase the understanding of factors that lead to disproportionality. The main objectives of this project included:

Developing methodology to assess minority overrepresentation in Special Education
Conducting an intensive case study at the local level of factors contributing to disproportionality
Conducting a statistical analysis of demographic correlates of disproportionality
Convening a statewide conference on disproportionality
Creating a report summarizing these findings to the Indiana Department of Education