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Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TACD) project, formerly known as Chapter 405, at The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (Metro Center) is contracted through the New York State Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID) to develop, implement, and assess a process of providing comprehensive technical assistance and professional development trainings to New York State School Districts that are addressing issues of disproportionality.
Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality’s work includes building the capacity of regions and districts in understanding the root cause and systemically addressing the disproportionate assignment of various subgroups in special education. This entails providing professional development trainings, coaching, training follow-ups, materials and resources. The resources include a Web-Based Clearinghouse, a Disproportionality Data Repository (DDR), research based articles and journals, manuals, and workbook. |
