The High School State Incentive Grant was established to improve the quality of instruction given to New York students with handicaps by providing high school special education teachers with an intensive staff development program designed and implemented at the school, district, and citywide levels. The program consisted of three major components: on-site training, boroughwide initiatives (BWI), and central staff development. Among findings of the evaluation report are that all three components were implemented as planned. BWI provided training, curriculum development, and Academy of Basic Skills (ABS) teacher training. Central staff development provided instruction in Computerease, Instrumental Enrichment, the Academy of Basic Skills, and paraprofessional training. More than 50% of participants considered on-site training and ABS instruction, curriculum, and training to be of superior quality. The on-site training component approximated but did not meet its objective of providing 25 hours of training during the 1988-89 school year. The on-site training component effected a positive change in the total level of knowledge of 75% of the teacher-respondents and increased 57% of the respondents' levels of communication with general education personnel. Recommendations include involving teacher-trainees in development of on-site training plans and expanding the ABS program to more schools. (DB)