{"id":756,"date":"2017-02-01T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/?page_id=756"},"modified":"2017-02-02T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:37:58","slug":"state-defined-alternate-diplomas-for-students-with-significant-cognitive-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/february-2017\/state-defined-alternate-diplomas-for-students-with-significant-cognitive-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"State-Defined Alternate Diplomas for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nceo.umn.edu\/docs\/OnlinePubs\/NCEO_NTACTBriefalternatediplomas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-757\" src=\"http:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NCEO-NTACT-Brief-alternate-diplomas-for-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>Title I of the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), allows for the inclusion in graduation accountability of a diploma option for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who participate in alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS).<\/p>\n<p>NCEO and the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT) recently jointly published a Brief, <a href=\"https:\/\/nceo.umn.edu\/docs\/OnlinePubs\/NCEO_NTACTBriefalternatediplomas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Considerations for Developing State-Defined Alternate Diplomas for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> It describes the criteria that must be met for a State-defined alternate diploma to meet federal requirements for inclusion in the Title I Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR). \u00a0According to ESSA, State-defined alternate diplomas must be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standards-based<\/li>\n<li>Aligned with State requirements for the regular high school diploma<\/li>\n<li>Obtained within the time period for which the State ensures the availability of a free appropriate public education (FAPE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Brief includes considerations for states contemplating the development of a State-defined alternate diploma, and recommends steps for those deciding to adopt a State-defined alternate diploma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title I of the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), allows for the inclusion in graduation accountability of a diploma option for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who participate in alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). NCEO and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":743,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions\/798"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}