Database of Federally Funded Technical Assistance and Research Centers

Rhonda Weiss Center for Accessible IDEA Data (Weiss Center)

The Rhonda Weiss Center for Accessible IDEA Data improves state capacity to report Part B and Part C Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) data in accessible formats.

The Weiss Center, along with trusted partners, works closely with states to help them deal with challenges related to making IDEA data accessible.

The services delivered by the Weiss Center will benefit state education agencies in the following ways:

Improve knowledge about accessibility needs, standards, best practices, and how to apply them.
Build skills and competency needed to make state-level data more accessible in dynamic formats.
Enhance ability to sharing knowledge about accessibility with other states, local education agencies (LEAs), and early intervention (EI) programs.
Increase access to data by people who have historically been excluded. This will improve data quality due to broader data use and analysis.

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Director(s): Fred Edora, M.B.A., Project Co-Director, Johan Rempel, B.A., Project Co-Director

Website: https://www.weissta.org/

Specialty Area

Data Systems
Part B – 619
Part C

Primary Audience

State Education Agencies

Services

Assessment Tools
Content Expertise

Regions/States

National

All States

Level of Support

General

Additional Information

The Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID)

The Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID) provides technical assistance to state education agencies (SEAs) to increase the capacity to report high quality data required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B Sections 616 and 618. CIID supports the integration of IDEA data systems and processes with the statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS). CIID is working directly with SEAs to resolve the challenges associated with fragmented IDEA, SLDS and EDFacts data management practices and data systems architecture. When IDEA data are fully integrated into the SLDS, SEAs will be able to more efficiently complete federal data reporting and have higher quality IDEA data to inform decision-making for improved educational outcomes.