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Stephens, Peggy; Rous, Beth – 1991
This packet, part of Project STEPS (Sequenced Transition to Education in the Public Schools), is intended to aid local agencies in forming local interagency councils and is based on experiences in Kentucky since 1983 in the development of Preschool Interagency Planning Councils (PIPCs). Section 1 provides an overview of the PIPC network, a group…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Disabilities, Early Intervention
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. for Exceptional Children. – 1979
Designed for parents of handicapped children in Kentucky, the booklet contains suggestions for parent involvement and advocacy. Planning informal activities is the focus of the first section which covers informal get togethers, discussion groups, and film viewing sessions. Planning steps for more formal group activities such as workshops are…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Meetings
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1993
This document presents information needed for development of contractual or cooperative arrangements between local school districts and other agencies and programs in Kentucky in order to better serve preschool children who are at risk of educational failure or who have identified disabilities. After an introductory section, the Preschool…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Contracts, Cooperative Programs
Quenemoen, Rachel; Rigney, Susan; Thurlow, Martha – 2002
State assessment systems must address both technical and policy issues as assessments and accountability practices are developed and implemented. These technical and policy issues have been expanded from traditional large-scale assessment to new alternative assessment approaches required by law and developed in every state. The primary purpose of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing

Garrett, Brent; Towles, Elizabeth; Kleinert, Harold; Kearns, Jacqui – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
This article provides a template to assist policymakers in developing and refining reliable large-scale alternate assessments for students with significant disabilities unable to participate in general state and district assessments. It also discusses Kentucky's 10-year experience with its alternate assessment and experiences of other states…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass, Lexington, KY. – 1987
This final report describes the activities and accomplishments of a federally funded project designed to develop a community-wide interagency service delivery model for facilitating the successful transition of handicapped children from preschool programs to the least restrictive environment in the public schools. The model addresses four major…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities

Doktor, Judy E.; Poertner, John – Remedial and Special Education, 1996
The Kentucky Family Resource Centers developed under the Kentucky Educational Reform Act are described as examples of the school-linked service movement. The lessons learned in the development of the centers and policy issues that need to be addressed by both education and social services to assure continued development of this movement are…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Change
Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass, Lexington, KY. – 1991
Project STEPS (Sequenced Transition to Education in the Public Schools) was a federally funded demonstration grant to develop a community-wide interagency process for the transition of children with disabilities from preschool to the public schools. Participants were the local public schools and seven programs serving preschool children with…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Byrd, Rita; And Others – 1991
This manual provides guidelines for early childhood programs and public school systems wishing to establish or formalize a transition process to meet the needs of preschool children moving into the public school system, based on the STEPS (Sequenced Transition to Education in the Public Schools) model developed in Kentucky. The manual begins with…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Disabilities, Family Involvement
Kleinert, Harold L.; And Others – 1990
This document presents a "Quality Program Indicators Checklist" developed with the goal of program improvement in classrooms for students in Kentucky with moderate and severe handicaps. The checklist evaluates program effectiveness in six component areas: (1) integration (interaction opportunities and teacher behaviors supportive of…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Curriculum, Disabilities, Educational Practices