{"id":5075,"date":"2020-04-02T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:43:30","slug":"special-education-in-the-school-district-of-philadelphia-understanding-the-landscape-2018-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2020\/04\/02\/special-education-in-the-school-district-of-philadelphia-understanding-the-landscape-2018-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Education in the School District of Philadelphia: Understanding the Landscape, 2018-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This brief provides a descriptive summary of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) classifications of students in the School District of Philadelphia during the 2018-19 school year. It describes the data according to two guiding questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What are the IEP classifications of students in the School District of Philadelphia? How do these classifications vary by student demographic characteristics? By grade spans?<\/li>\n<li>How do attendance and suspension outcomes of students with IEPs compare to the District average?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Key findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most common primary IEP classification was <em>specific learning disability<\/em> (40% of IEPs).<\/li>\n<li>47% of the students with IEPs had more than one disability.<\/li>\n<li>Male students with IEPs outnumbered female students with IEPs by two to one (68% male students vs. 32% female students).<\/li>\n<li>The distribution of IEP classifications varied by race and ethnicity: 48% of Hispanic\/Latino students with IEPs had the classification <em>specific learning disability<\/em> (compared to the District average of 40%), and 26% of Asian students with IEPs had the classification <em>autism<\/em> (compared to the District average of 15%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use the button to download the 17-page brief.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=&#8221;CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#0b315b&#8221; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#398635&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.philasd.org%2Fresearch%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F90%2F2020%2F04%2FSpecial-Education-in-SDP-2018-19-Data-Brief-April-2020.pdf|||&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief provides a descriptive summary of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) classifications of students in the School District<br \/>\nof Philadelphia during the 2018-19 school year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21878,"featured_media":5076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,341,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equity","category-special-education","category-system-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}