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DISABILITIES ROADMAP: Traumatic brain injury: Intervention considerations for IEP teams --- This exclusive Special Ed Connection® series offers advice to help your teams serve students with specific disabilities. Here's a 'roadmap' to serve students with TBI.

OSEP FILE: LEAs may reduce MOE based on both increased funds, special factors --- Districts can potentially reduce maintenance of effort to reflect a surge in Part B funding, while also making reductions due to unique circumstances, such as staff departures.

Report: Invest in pre-K to bolster school improvement efforts --- Read data from a new report that can help answer the question: When budgets are limited, what early childhood investment is most likely to help decrease achievement gaps?

SPECIAL ED TODAY: Students with IEPs disproportionately suspended from NYC schools --- Of the 73,441 suspensions from New York City schools last year, 30 percent were students with IEPs, but such students represent only 17 percent of total enrollment.

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