Special Education Research and Demographics

For this assignment, you complete a demographic review of the diverse learners within your district including the percentage of students with IEPs by race, the percentage of students with various special education eligibility categories and the percentage of students with IEPS in the least restrictive environment by examining your School Report Card and IStar data (ask your Special Education District Administration) for more detailed data from ISTAR). Now that you have collected all of this data, analyze it, and answer the following questions with appropriate APA in-cite citations and reference list as appropriate. 

1. From a district perspective, what demographic trends did you notice? Be specific. What generalizations can be made in regard to the data? (Table 1)

2. Discuss specifically the data trends you observe for each IEP student demographic (table 1),  by each specific special education eligibility category (table 2), and general education environment percentage (table 3). After analyzing the data, what generalizations can be made in regard to your IEP student population and disability category subgroups? What strengths might you infer based on this data? What weaknesses might you infer based on this data? Be sure to include strengths and weaknesses for each of the three tables.

3. As a future Superintendent, what would be some areas you would want to address to improve services for students with disabilities?  What possible recommendations would you make to the Board of Education?  How do these recommendations align with the Strategic Plan of the District? 

4. Prepare a Board Presentation using Google Presentation to include a summary of District’s strengths and weaknesses, plan to address weaknesses, recommendations to improve, and potential impact on the budget.                                                                     I uploaded what I have written so far. Please help me complete this assignment. I also uploaded a model paper that was given to the class by the professor.                                                                                  Resources:  https://www.mdek12.org/sites/default/files/Offices… https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docum… https://msrc.mdek12.org/entity?EntityID=2500-000&S… https://data.census.gov/profile/Hinds_County,_Miss…         https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/mississippi/districts/hinds-co-school-dist-110704#:~:text=Students%20at%20Hinds%20County%20School,Hawaiian%20or%20other%20Pacific%20Islander.                   https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/hinds… https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_de…