Presented are the special education program description and process guide for the Program Data Analysis Plan (PDAP) developed in Colorado and designed to be replicated by other states. The Colorado special education program is described under the following categories: purpose and authorization, state level management and organization, modes of service (special class or itinerant instruction), applications (local organization), funding, determination of eligibility for service, and administrative procedures. Also discussed are program monitoring, approval, certification, reimbursement, development, and evaluation. The process of PDAP development is said to have involved the identification of management information requirements by means of a list of policy questions developed by program managers, collection of data, analysis of input from policy questions and data, and the explicit formulation of analytic procedures to be followed by applying the data to the answering of management information questions. Use of the PDAP is said to consist of locating in the PDAP a question pertinent to the informational need, using state and federal forms listed on the PDAP to locate the data, and analyzing the data to gain the information needed for decisionmaking. See EC 051 399 for a companion document. (DB)