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Bryant G. Hopkins; Matthew Guzman; Scott A. Imberman; Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Katharine O. Strunk; Marisa H. Fisher – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
We use data from Michigan and an interrupted time series strategy to show how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted special education identifications and discontinuations. We find a substantial decrease in K-5 identifications and discontinuations during the 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 school years. Identifications fell by 19% and 12% in the first two…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Special Education, Disability Identification
Bryant Hopkins; Katharine O. Strunk; Scott Imberman; Adrea Truckenmiller; Matthew Guzman; Marissa Fisher – Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 2023
We use data from Michigan and an interrupted time series (ITS) strategy to show how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted new special education classifications and discontinuations. We find a substantial decrease in K-5 classifications and discontinuations during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. Classifications fell by 19 and 12 percent in these…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Special Education, Disability Identification