Sangamon Area Special Education District

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Sangamon Area Special Education District

• Decentralization Survey Results

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Superintendents Survey
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Which of the following would your district prefer
to administer locally?

• SRS/SRC Teachers 11/16 69
• ED Classroom 8/16 50
• ECE Teachers 11/16 69
• CBE Teachers 5/16 31
• Vision Itinerant 1/16 6
• Hearing Itinerant 1/16 6
• OT Services 2/16 12

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Continued

• PT Services 2/16 12
• Orientation Mobility 1/16 6
• Speech Therapists 5/16 31
• Vocational Coord. 4/16 25
• Psychologist 3/16 19
• Social Worker 4/16 25

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Continued

• Service Area Adm. 5/16 31
• Classroom Aides 9/16 56
• Preschool Screeners 5/16 31

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In relation to technical assistance, which of the
following would your district prefer to
administer locally?

• Speech 1/16 6
• Psychologists 1/16 6
• Social Workers 2/16 13
• ECE Teachers 4/16 25
• Hearing Itinerant 0/16 0
• Vision Itinerant 0/16 0
• OT/PT 1/16 6

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Which of the following would your district prefer
to administer locally?

• Extended School Year 3/16 19
• IDEA Grant Writing/Reporting 1/16 6
• Maintain Student Records 5/16 31
• Legal Services 3/16 19
• Illinois Alternate Assessment 2/16 13
• Therapeutic Public Day school 0/16 0
• Computerized IEP Program 3/16 19

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With regard to student reimbursement claims,
which of the following would your district prefer
to administer locally?

• Private Residential 5/16 31
• Orphanage Act 4/16 25
• Excess Cost 4/16 25
• Summer School State 3/16 19
• Aid

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With regard to in-service training, which of the
following would your district prefer to
administer locally?

• CPI 4/16 25
• Behavior Management 6/16 38
• Functional Analysis 5/16 31
• Goal Writing 6/16 38
• CBM Training 3/16 19
• Woodcock Johnson 4/16 25

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Continued

• IEP Computer Program 4/16 25
• Autism 2/16 13
• Board Maker 1/16 6
• RTI Training 10/16 66
• Speech/Language 3/16 19
• Highly Qualified 7/16 44
• SOP 1/16 6

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With regard to special education referrals and
appointments, which of the following would your
district prefer to administer locally?

• Psychiatrics 1/16 6
• Neuropsychological 1/16 6
• Audiologist 1/16 6
• Autism Evaluations 1/16 6
• OT Evaluations 1/16 6
• PT Evaluations 1/16 6

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My district is content with the current
centralized delivery model

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral Disagree
  Disagree
• 4 3 2
  4 3
• 25 19 12 25
  19

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My district will struggle to recruit, hire and
retain qualified staff for services that we
provide in a partially decentralized model

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral Disagree
  Disagree
• 4 3 4
  1 4
• 25 19 25
  6 25

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My district believes that partial
decentralization will be more expensive

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral
  Disagree Disagree
• 3 5 1
  6 1
• 19 31 6
  38 6

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My district is confident that our local district
can provide quality special education services in
a partially decentralized structure

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral Disagree
  Disagree
• 6 5 0
  4 1
• 38 31 0
  25 6

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Collective bargaining issues will have an impact
on our districts decision to support a partial
decentralization

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral
  Disagree Disagree
• 3 8 4
  1 0
• 19 50 25
  6 0

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With partial decentralization, my district would
prefer to employ SASED staff

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral
  Disagree Disagree
• 5 5
  2 4 0
• 31 31 12
  25 0

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I am willing to consider changing the SASED
by-laws to allow for partial decentralization

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral Disagree
  Disagree
• 5 8 2
  1 0
• 31 50 12
  6 0

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I am willing to consider changing the by-laws to
allow individual district (s) to partially
decentralize while other districts continue with
the current service delivery model (15
participants)

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral
  Disagree Disagree
• 6 7 1
  1 0
• 40 47 7
  7 0

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My board of education supports greater local
control over special education programs

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral Disagree
  Disagree
• 3 3 7
  1 2
• 19 19 44
  6 12

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If we change to a partial decentralization
structure, my district believes that there will
be a resulting savings to central office cost (15
participants)

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral Disagree
  Disagree
• 2 7 3
  3 0
• 13 47 20
  20 0

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In a flexible delivery model, districts would
select the specialized services they wish to
administer locally as well as the services SASED
would administer. My district is willing to
consider a flexible delivery model

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral
  Disagree Disagree
• 7 9 0
  0 0
• 44 56 0
  0 0

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Based on our discussions at our recent meeting,
my district feels it is necessary to review the
billing structure for 01 and 02 costs

• Strongly Strongly
• Agree Agree Neutral
  Disagree Disagree
• 5 9
  2 0 0
• 31 56 12
  0 0

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Should the structure of SASED and the districts
move forward on partial decentralization

• Yes No Unsure
• 10 0
  6
• 62 0
  38

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Staff Survey
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Demographic Information

• SRS/SRC Teacher 135
  
• CBE Teacher 12
• SASED Central Teacher 6
• Hearing Itinerants 3
• Vision Itinerants
  2
• OT Staff
  10
• PT Staff 6

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Continue Demographics

• Speech Pathologist 29
• Classroom Aide 56
• SASED Aide 7
• Individual Aide 2
• Service Area Adm. 13
• School Psychologist 14
• School Social Worker 19

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Continue Demographics

• Vocational Coordinator 2
• Preschool Screener 4
• Central Office Staff 9
• Other
  18

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Years in SASED

• 1-4 years 135
• 5-10 years 79
• 11-15 years 52
• 16-20 years 23
• 21-30 years 47
• 30 years 9

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Years in Current District

• 1-4 years
  157
• 5-10 years
  78
• 11-15 years
  43
• 16-20 years
  18
• 21-30 years
  18
• 30 years
  2

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I believe that SASED should continue to provide
the following services in the cooperative
Orientation Mobility 176 52 Occupational
Therapy 300 89 Physical Therapy 300 89 Sp
eech Therapy 240 71 Hearing Itinerant
Teachers 276 82 Vision Itinerant
Teachers 270 80 Community Based
Education 191 57 Autism Technical
Assistance 262 78 SASED Central (BD Alt.
Ed) 289 86 Psychologists 260 77 Social
Workers 260 77 Psychiatric
Evaluations 219 65 Classroom Aides 116 34
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I believe that SASED should continue to provide
the following services (contd)
SRS/SRC Teachers 133 39 Service Area
Administrators 231 69 Computerized IEP
Programs 260 77 Special Ed Technical
Assistance 181 54 Technical Supervision of
Psychologists 171 51 Technical Supervision of
Social Workers 169 50 Individual
Aides 111 33 Continuing Education 196 58
Self-Contained Autism Program 229 68 Technical
Supervision of Speech Therapists 161 48