Designed for vocational instructors and local school administrative personnel, these guidelines suggest ways for improving the vocational education of mainstreamed special needs students by providing supportive services to best meet visually handicapped, orthepedically impaired, seriously emotionally disturbed, or learning disabled). The first of…

The paper traces the establishment and outcomes of a special education program development unit as part of the West Virginia Department of Education. It is explained that the office used a process/product planning approach with information on mission, role/function, allocation of function and resources, and multiple matrix analysis planning. Based…

West Virginia Bill 300 (Jobs Through Education Act) requires all students in grades 1-11 to take the Stanford Achievement Test. A minimum of 50 percent of a school's students in grades 3-11 must perform in the third quartile or the school will be considered deficient. A clause in the bill states that all students will be tested except those…