Glossary of Special Education Acronyms & Terms

BAAC | Building Accountability Advisory Committees

BABNP | Breakfast After the Bell Nutrition Program

BD | Behavioral Disorder

BEAR | Basic Early Assessment in Reading

BEP | Behavior Education Program

BEST | Basic English Skills Test -The BEST is designed to test the listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills of limited English-proficient adults.

BEST | Building Excellent Schools Today

BIA | Bureau of Indian Affairs

BIE | Bureau of Indian Education

BIP | Behavioral Intervention Plan

BOCES | Board of Cooperative Educational Services — Frequently BOCES are a group of smaller districts that band together to use their collective for a better use of funds. Also known as BOCS.

BOCS | Board of Cooperative Services. Also known as BOCES.

BOE | Board of Education

BVI | Blind/Visually Impaired

C (at the end of a school district name) | Consolidated.

CABE | Colorado Association of Bilingual Educators

CABO | Colorado Association of Business Officials

CACE | Colorado Association of Community Educators

CADI | Comprehensive Appraisal for District Improvement

CAEPA | Colorado Adult Education Professional Association

CAES | Colorado Association of Educational Specialists

CAI | Computer Assisted Instruction

CAL | Colorado Association of Libraries

CAL | Center for Applied Linguistics

CALET | Colorado Association of Leaders in Educational Technology

CAP | Client Assistance Program

CAP | Corrective Action Plan

CAP4K | Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids (SB-212)

CAPD | Central Auditory Processing Disorder

CAPTA | Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

CAQSAP | Colorado Alliance of Quality School-Age Providers

CARES Act | Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security

CAS | Colorado Academic Standards

CASAS | Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System. Standardized assessment instruments for assessing adult basic skills within a functional context.

CASASTART | Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse Striving Together to Achieve Rewarding Tomorrows

CASB | Colorado Association of School Boards

CASBO | Colorado Association of School Business Officials

CASE | Colorado Association for School Executives

CASL | Classroom Assessment for Student Learning

CASL | Colorado Association of School Librarians

CASN | Colorado Association of School Nurses

CASPA | Colorado Association of School Personnel Administrators

CASSA | Colorado Association of Superintendents/Senior Administrators

CASSP |Colorado Association of Secondary School Principals

CATE | Colorado Association of Teacher Educators

CBA | Curriculum Based Assessment

CBLA | Colorado Basic Literacy Act – state law that ensures students are reading at grade level by third grade. Replaced with the READ Act.

CBO | Community Based Organization – a local organization that works with one specialized population or group of clients. (i.e.: youth, women, adult learners, ex- offenders).

CBT | Computer-Based Training – the dissemination of text for instruction via electronic means.

CBT | Computer Based Testing

CC | Closed Captioning

CCA | Capital Construction Assistance

CCAB | Capital Construction Assistance Board

CCB | Community Centered Board

CCHE | Colorado Council on Higher Education

CCHS | Colorado Coalition for Healthy Schools

CCIRA | Colorado Council of the International Reading Association

CCLC | Century Community Learning Centers

CCML | Colorado Council of Medical Libraries

CCR | Colorado Code of Regulations

CCRA | Colorado Comprehensive Reading Academy

CCRS | College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education

CCSG | Connecting Colorado Students Grant

CCSRI | Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement

CCSS | Common Core State Standards

CCSSO| Council of Chief State School Officers

CDA | Child Development Associate

CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDE | Colorado Department of Education

CDE/AEI | Colorado Department of Education, Adult Education Initiatives (formerly Adult Education and Family Literacy Office or AEFL)

CDEC | Colorado Department of Early Childhood

CDHE | Colorado Department of Higher Education

CDHS | Colorado Department of Human Services

CDL&E | Colorado Department of Labor and Employment

CDOT | Colorado Department of Transportation

CDPHE | Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

CE | Concurrent Enrollment

CEA | Colorado Education Association, the state chapter of NEA – one of two teachers unions; the other is AFT

CEC | Council for Exceptional Children

CECFA | Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority – issues bonds for charter schools

CEDAR | Colorado Education Data Analysis and Reporting System

CEEC | Colorado Educator Excellence Center

CEI | Colorado Education Initiative (formerly Colorado Legacy Foundation)

CELP | Colorado English Language Proficiency

CELT | Center for Educational Leadership and Technology

CEMA | Colorado Educational Media Association (now: CASL)

CEP | Community Eligibility Provision

CF |  Cystic Fibrosis

CFDA | Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance – now called Assistance Listings

C-FIRS | Colorado – Federal Integrated Review System

CFP | Consolidated Federal Programs

CFR | Code of Federal Regulations

CHADD | Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

CHCO | Children’s Hospital Colorado

CHIP | Children’s Health Insurance Program

CI | Cochlear Implant

CIFMS | Continuous Improvement and Focused Monitoring System

CIMC-VH | Colorado Instructional Materials Center for the Visually Handicapped

CIPA | Children’s Internet Protection Act

CK | Core Knowledge

CLC | Colorado Libraries Collaborate! (formerly Colorado Library Card)

CLCS | Colorado League of Charter Schools

CLD | Culturally and/or Linguistically Diverse

CLF | Colorado Legacy Foundation (now Colorado Education Initiative)

CLiC | Colorado Library Consortium

CLICK | A listserv for the adult education and family literacy community in Colorado managed by the Office of Adult Education and Family Literacy

CLSD | Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant

CMAS | Colorado Measures of Academic Success

CNS | Central Nervous System

CoALL  | Colorado Association of Law Libraries

CoALT | Colorado Alternate Assessment

COMMSTEP | Colorado Mathematics Middle School Teacher Enhancement Project

CoP | Committee of Practitioners

COP | Community of Practice

COPA | Children’s Online Protection Act

CoPINE | Colorado Parent Information Network for Education

COPMS | Colorado State Model Performance Management System

CORA | Colorado Open Records Act

CORE | Consortium on Reading Excellence

COSPRA | Colorado School Public Relations Association

COSLA | Chief Officers of State Library Agencies

CoSN | Consortium for School Networking

CoSPL | Colorado State Publications Library

COWD | Colorado Office of Workforce Development

CP | Cerebral Palsy

CPIR | Center for Parent Information and Resources

CPIRC | Colorado Parent Information and Resource Center

CPP | Colorado Preschool Program

CPRC | Community Parent Resource Center

CPRE | Consortium for Policy Research in Education

CRC | Colorado Resource Center

CRDC | Civil Rights Data Collection (formerly the Elementary and Secondary School Survey, E&S Survey)

CREA | Colorado Reading Excellence Act

CRF | Colorado Reading First

CRF | Coronavirus Relief Fund

CROWD | Completion, Recall, Open-ended, Wh- questions, and Distancing. Prompts used in dialogic reading.

CRS | Colorado Revised Statutes

CSAC | Commissioner’s Superintendent Advisory Council

CSAN | Colorado State Accountability Network

CSAP | Colorado Student Assessment Program

CSAPA | Colorado State Assessment Program Alternate

CSBASP | Colorado Student Before and After School Project

CSCC | Charter School Capital Construction

CSDB | Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind

CSEAC | Colorado Special Education Advisory Committee

CSHCN | Children with Special Health Care Needs

CSI | Charter School Institute

CSL | Colorado State Library

CSNA | Colorado School Nutrition Association

CSPD | Comprehensive System of Personnel Development

CSPTA | Colorado State Pupil Transportation Association

CST | Child Study Team

CST | Coordinated Support Team

CRD | Colorado Reading Directorate

CRRSA | Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act

CSP | Charter School Program

CSPR | Consolidated State Performance Report

CSR | Comprehensive School Reform – a federal grant for failing schools, formerly known as Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration

CSR | Class Size Reduction

CSRC | Colorado School Resource Center

CSRS | Child Safety Restraint System

CSSEAC | Charter Schools Special Education Advisory Committee

CSSI | Charter School Support Initiative

CSU | Colorado State University

CTAG | Closing the Achievement Gap

C-TAG | Closing the Achievement Gap

CTBS | California Test of Basic Skills

CTBL | Colorado Talking Book Library

CTOY | Colorado Teacher of the Year

CTLT | Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

CVL | Colorado Virtual Library

CVSA | Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance

CWEL | Child Welfare Education Liaison (CWEL)

DAC | District Assessment Coordinator

DARE | Data, Accountability, Reporting and Evaluation

DB | Deaf-Blind

DBO | Department of Business Officials

DCO | Deputy Commissioner’s Office

DD | Developmental Delay

DD Act | Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act

DHH | Deaf/Hard of Hearing

DI | Direct Instruction

DIBELS | Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy

DIG | District Improvement Grant

DISH | District and School Dashboard

DLI | Daily Language Instruction

DLM | Dynamic Learning Maps Consortia

DOC | Department of Corrections

DoDDS | Department of Defense Dependent Schools

DODEA | Department of Defense Educational Activity

DOT | Department of Transportation

DPER | Data, Program Evaluation and Reporting

DPF | District Performance Frameworks

DPL | Denver Public Library

DS | Down Syndrome

DSA | Data Sharing Agreement

DSM | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association

DSM-IV | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV

DSU | Data Services Unit

DTC | District Technology Coordinator

DU | University of Denver

DVR | Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

DWDB | Denver Workforce Development Board

DYS | Division of Youth Services (formerly DYC, Division of Youth Corrections)

EANS | Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools

EASI | Empowering Action for School Improvement

EBP | Evidence-based Practice

ECARE | Early Childhood At-Risk Enhancement

ECE | Early Childhood Education

ECEA | Exceptional Children’s Educational Act

ECHS | Early College High School

ECLC | Early Childhood Leadership Commission

ECS | Education Commission of the States

ECSE | Early Childhood Special Education

ECWD | Early Childhood Workforce Development (formerly Early Childhood Professional Development or ECPD)

ED | Emotional Disturbance

ED | U.S. Department of Education

EDAC | Education Data Advisory Committee

EDGAR | Education Department General Administrative Regulations

EDI | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

EDID | Educator Identifier Project. Purpose was to improve teaching and learning by linking student achievement data to the students’ teacher(s).

EDIS | Educator Identifier System

EDLG | Early Learning and Development Guidelines, Birth to 8

EE | Educator Effectiveness

EEO | Extended Evidence Outcomes

EF | Employment First – A federally mandated program designed to ensure that all able-bodied food stamp participants funded by the US Dept. of Agriculture clients are engaged in activities that will improve their employability.

EFL | Educational Functioning Level – The levels at which adult learners in AEFLA-funded programs are initially placed based on their ability to perform literacy-related tasks in specific content areas.

EHA | Education of the Handicapped Act (now IDEA)

EHCY | Education for Homeless Children and Youth

EHDI | Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program

EI | Early Intervention

EIEP | Emergency Immigrant Education Program

EIS | Early Intervening Services

EL | Educator Licensing

EL | English Learner

ELA | English Language Acquisition

ELA | English Language Arts

ELAT | Early Literacy Assessment Tool

ELD | English Language Development

ELG | Early Literacy Grant

ELL | English Language Learner

ELPA | English Language Proficiency Act

ELU | Education Licensing Unit

EMAC | Emergency Management Assistance Compact

EOY | End of Year

EPSDT |Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment

EQIT | Expanding Quality in Infant Toddler Care Initiative

E-rate | A discount telecom program from the US Government, the universal service fund

ERIC | Education Resources Information Center

ES | Elementary School

ESD | Extended School Day

ESEA | Elementary and Secondary Education Act (now called ESSA)

ESL | English as a Second Language

ESOL | English for Speakers of Other Languages

ESRA | Education Sciences Reform Act

ESSA | Every Student Succeeds Act

ESSER | Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief

ESSU | Exceptional Student Services Unit

ESY or EYS | Extended School Year or Extended Year Services

ET/IL | Educational Technology and Information Literacy

FAPE | Free Appropriate Public Education

FAS | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

FASD | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

FAST | Field Analyst Services Team – now called School Auditing Office

FBA | Functional Behavioral Assessment

FBO | Faith-Based Organization – Organizations that have their charter from a particular church/religious affiliation.

FC | Facilitated Communication

FCC | Federal Communications Commission

FDA | Facilitated Data Analysis

FDK | Full-Day Kindergarten Facility Capital Construction

FELL | Former English Language Learner

FEOG | Full Educational Opportunity Goal

FEP | Fluent English Proficient

FERPA | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FFVP | Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program

FHA | Functional Hearing Assessment

FMCSA | Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

FMVSS | Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

FOIA | Freedom of Information Act

FPP | Financial Policies and Procedures

FRL | Free and Reduced Price Lunch

FRUMPS | Front Range Urban Media Professionals

FSCS | Federal-State Cooperative System

FSCP | Family, School, and Community Partnering

FTE | Full-Time Equivalent

FTL | Following the Leaders (program from the Education Leaders Council)

FVA | Functional Visual Assessment

FY | Fiscal Year – the fiscal year begins July 1 and ends June 30 the following year

GAO | Government Accounting Office

GE | General Education

GED (also known as HSE or High School Equivalency) | General Educational Development

GEER | Governor’s Emergency Education Relief

GEPA | General Education Provisions Act

GFM | Grants Fiscal Management (now Office of Grants Fiscal)

GIS | Geographic Information Services

GLE | Grade Level Expectation

GPRA | Government Performance and Results Act

GT | Gifted and Talented

HESTL | Highly Effective Schools through Libraries

HHFKA | Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act

HI | Hearing Impaired

HIP | Helping Improve Parents

HKCS | Healthy Kids Colorado Survey

HLM | Hierarchical Linear Model

HIPPA | Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act

HKNC | Helen Keller National Center

HO | Hearing Officer

HoH | Hard of Hearing

HOSTS | Help One Student to Succeed

HOUSSE | Highly Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation

HQT | Highly Qualified Teacher

HS | High School

HSE | High School Equivalency (HSE) Testing Program (also known as GED)

IA | Instructional Assistant

IAES | Interim Alternative Educational Setting

IASA | Improving America’s Schools Act – 1994 federal law

IB | International Baccalaureate

ICAP | Individual Career and Academic Plan

ICC | Interagency Coordinating Council

ID | Intellectual Disabilities

IDEA | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

IDEA-B | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act – Part B

IEE | Independent Educational Evaluation

IELCE | Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education – Federal grant funds, made available under AEFLA, to enable local programs to provide integrated English literacy and civics education services to immigrants and other limited English proficient populations. (Formerly EL/Civics)

IEP | Individualized Education Program

IES | Institute of Education Sciences

IFC | Intellectual Freedom Committee

IFSP | Individualized Family Service Plan

IHE | Institution of Higher Education

ILL | Interlibrary Loan

ILP | Individual Literacy Plan – the Colorado Basic Literacy Act requires an ILP for any student not reading at grade level by third grade

IMLS | Institute of Museum and Library Services

IMP | Interactive Mathematics Program

IMS | Information Management Systems

IPBS | Integrated Performance and Benchmarking System

IPS | Individualized Planning Sessions

IPST | Instructional Program Service Type

IPT | Idea Proficiency Test

IQ | Intelligence Quotient

IRA | International Reading Association

IRA | Inter-rater Agreement

IRI | Informal Reading Inventory

IRR | Inter-rater Reliability

ISBN | International Standard Book Number

ISP | Internet Service Provider

ISSN | International Standard Serial Number

ITA | Individual Training Accounts – Workforce Investment Act funds used to pay for training; or a voucher system established under WIA. It is part of the set of services available to those customers needing specific occupational skill attainment.

ITBS | Iowa Test of Basic Skills

ITCA | Infants and Toddlers Coordinators Association

ITP | Individualized Transition Plan

J (at the end of a school district name) | Joint, crosses county lines.

JBC | Joint Budget Committee

JT (at the end of a school district name) | Joint, crosses county lines.

LD | Learning Disability(ies)

LD | Learning Disabled

LD | Library District

LEA | Local Education Agency

LEP | Limited English Proficiency

LETRS | Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling

LINCS | Literacy Information and Communication System

LMA | Learning Media Assessment

LMC | Library Media Center School and Library Division (E-rate)

LMI | Labor Market Information – The cornerstone of Colorado’s delivery system for employment statistics.

LMS | Learning Management System (See CDE’s Moodle Learning Management System, also known as CDE LMS)

LM/Ts | Lesson Maps and Templates

LRE | Least Restrictive Environment

LRS | Library Research Service

LSTA | Library Services and Technology Act

MALDEF | Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

MALL | Metro Area Learning Leaders

MARC | Machine Readable Cataloging

MATES | Metro Area Transportation

MBQC | Malcolm Baldrige Quality Criteria – Named for the late U.S. Secretary of Commerce, a national program to stimulate companies to become competitive in the area of quality management using leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, information and analysis, human resources, process management, and business results.

McREL | Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning

MD | Muscular Dystrophy

MD or MH | Multiple Disabilities or Multiply Handicapped

MDR | Manifestation Determination Review

MEP | Migrant Education Program

MET | Measures of Effective Teaching (Funded by Gates Foundation, study on how to evaluate teachers)

MGP | Median Growth Percentile

MLS | Master of Library Science

MNT | Multi-use Network

MOE | Maintenance of Effort

MOU | Memorandum of Understanding

MPAEA | Mountain Plains Adult Education Association

MPRRC | Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center

MS | Middle School

MSP | Mathematics and Science Partnerships

MTSS | Multi-Tiered System of Supports

N/D | Neglected or Delinquent

N/T | Nutrition/Transportation

NACSA | National Association of Charter School Authorizers

NAEYC | National Association for the Education of Young Children

NASBE | National Association of State Boards of Education

NASDSE | National Association of State Directors of Special Education

NASN | National Association of School Nurses

NAFEPA | National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators

NAEIR | National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources

NAEP | National Assessment of Educational Progress (Used to assess a sample of students in each state annually in 4th- and 8th-grade reading and math)

NAPT | National Association for Pupil Transportation

NARF | National Association for Reading First

NASDPTS | National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services

NASTID | National Association of State Title I Directors – now called ESEA Network

NCA | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

NCATE | National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education

NCES | National Center for Educational Statistics

NCIP | National Children’s Internet Protection Act

NCLB(A) | No Child Left Behind Act (Elementary and Secondary Education Act, reauthorized in 2015 as ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act)

NCTM | National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

NCST | National Congress on School Transportation

NEA | National Education Association

NECTAS | National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System

NEP | Non-English Proficient

NGS | New Generation System

NHTSA | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

NIH | National Institutes of Health

NIMAC | National Instructional Materials Access Center

NIMAS | National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard

NIMH | National Institute of Mental Health

NISO | National Information Standards Organization

NPRM | Notice of Proposed Rule Making

NPSO | National Post-School Outcomes Center

NRS | National Reporting System for Adult Education

NRS | Network and Resource Sharing

NSLP | National School Lunch Program

NSTTAC | National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center

NTAC | National Technical Assistance Consortium

NTSB | National Transportation Safety Board

O & M | Orientation and Mobility Services

OAO | Operational Advice and Oversight

OCD | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

OCLC | Online Computer Library Center

OCR | Office for Civil Rights

OCTAE | Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (formerly OVAE)

ODD | Oppositional Defiant Disorder

OELSR | Office of Early Learning and School Readiness

OES | Office of Educational Services

OESC | Office of Educational Services Council

OFPA | Office of Federal Program Administration

OHI | Other Health Impairment

OI | Orthopedic Impairment

OLE | Online Education

OLS | Office of Learning Supports

OMB | Office of Management and Budget – Clearance Packages

OMS | Office of Management Services

OOS | Out of Service

OPS | Office of Professional Services

OSEP | Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education

OSERS | Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services

OSPB | Office of State Planning and Budgeting

OSS | Office of Special Services, now known as Office of Federal Programs

OT | Occupational Therapy

OTL | Opportunity to Learn

OVAE | Office of Vocational and Adult Education (currently OCTAE)

P&A | Protection & Advocacy

PA | Phonemic Awareness

PACT | Parent and Child Together Time

PAIR | Program Accountability and Improvement Review (The on-site monitoring process used by Office of Adult Education and Family Literacy)

PALS | Peer-Assisted Learning System

PAMS | Planning and Management System

PARCC | Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

Part B | Special Education – School-Aged Children (Ages 3-21)

Part C | Special Education Early Intervention – Birth through 2 Years Old

PASS | Plan for Achieving Self-Support

PBIS | Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

PBS | Positive Behavioral Supports

PC | Perceptual-Communicative Criteria

PCA | Personal Care Attendant

PCD | Perceptual Communicative Disorder

PCSGP | Public Charter School Grant Program

PCSP | Public Charter School Program

PD | Physical Disability

PD | Professional Development

PDAS | Professional Development and Academic Support

PDD | Pervasive Developmental Disorder (the term is no longer used; as of 2013, it’s included under the umbrella category of autism spectrum disorder)

PDD | Professional Development District

PDS | Professional Development School

PDSSP | Professional Development and School Support

PEBC | Public Education Business Coalition

PEAK | Parent Education and Assistance for Kids

PEBC | Public Education & Business Coalition (A nonprofit partnership of Colorado education and business leaders dedicated to developing the intellectual and scholarly practices of educators across the continuum of their professional lives so our schools are worthy of our students)

PEER | Prompts the child to say something about the book, Evaluates the response, Expands the child’s response, Repeats the prompt. Dialogic reading prompts.

PEI | Spanish acronym for the Individualized Education Program (Plan Educativo Individualizado)

PEP | Parents Encouraging Parents

Perkins Act | Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act

PGC | Prepared Graduate Competency

PI | Prevention Initiatives

PI’d | Postponed Indefinitely (legislative term meaning bill is dead)

PIE | Policy Innovators in Education Network

PII | Personally Identifiable Information

PIRC | Parent Information and Resource Center

PISA | Program for International Student Assessment

PITA | Priority Improvement or Turnaround. Refers to school and/or district’s annual ratings on the annual Performance Framework.

PL | Public Law

PL | Public Library

PLACE | Program for Licensing Assessments for Colorado Educators

PLC | Professional Learning Community

PLEP or PLP | Present Level(s) of Educational Performance or Present Level(s) of Performance

PP | Paraprofessional

PPA | Per Pupil Allocation

PPOR | Per Pupil Operating Revenue

PPR | Per Pupil Revenue

PREL | Pacific Regional Educational Labs

PS | Preschool

PSAT | Pre-Stanford Achievement Test

PsD | Preschool Disability

PSF | Public School Finance

PSFU | Public School Finance Unit

PSRP | Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel

PT | Physical Therapy

PTAC | Parent Technical Assistance Center

P-TECH | Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools in Colorado

PTI | Parent Training and Information Center

PTO | Parent-Teacher Organization

PTP | Personnel Technological Proficiency

PWR | Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness

QTC | Quality Teacher Committee

QZAB | Qualified Zone Academy Bonds

R (at the end of a school district name) | Reorganized

R2A | Read to Achieve

RAC | Regional Assistance Center

RAD | Reactive Attachment Disorder

RANDA | Colorado State Model Performance Management System

RDA | Results-Driven Accountability

RE | Research/Evaluation

RE (at the end of a school district name) | Reorganized

REA | Reading Excellence Act

READ Act | Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act

REAP | Rural Education Achievement Program

RF | Reading First

RFI | Request for Information

RFP | Request for Proposals

RISC | Re-Inventing Schools Coalition

RISE | Relevant Information to Strengthen Education

RITS | Record Integration Tracking System

RM | Results Matter

RPDC | Regional Professional Development Council

RS | Related Services

RSA | Regional Service Area

RST | Regional Service Team

RTI | Response to Intervention

RTTT | Race to the Top Fund (also known as Vision 2020)

§ | This symbol means “Section” as in “§ 300.7 Child with a disability” in the IDEA regulations

SA | Self-Assessment

SACPIE | State Advisory Council for Parent Involvement in Education

SAGE | Service-learning and Geographic Engagement

SAR | School Accountability Report

SAR | Supervisory Assistance Review of a District’s Transportation Department

SAS | Supplementary Aids and Services

SASA | Student Achievement and School Accountability

SASID | State Assigned Student Identifier Numbers.

SAT | Stanford Achievement Test

SAU | Student Assessment Unit

SB | Spina Bifida

SBD | Student Biographical Data

SBE | State Board of Education

SBIC | School Bus Inspection Council

SBP | School Breakfast Program

SBRR | Scientifically Based Reading Research

SCASS | State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards

SCHIP | State Children’s Health Insurance Program

SDFSC | Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities

SDI | Safety and Discipline Indicators

SE | Special Education

SEA | State Education Agency

SEAC | Special Education Advisory Committee

SEC | Surveys of Enacted Curriculum

Section 504 | Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

Section 619 | Special Education 3-5 Years Old

SED | Serious Emotional Disturbance

SEDL | Southwest Educational Development Laboratory

SEE | Special Educator Eligibility

SEFAC | Special Education Fiscal Advisory Committee

SEP | Student Educational Plan- An individualized plan for instruction that assists a learner in achieving his/her goals.

SEPAC | Special Education Parent Advisory Council

SES | Supplemental Educational Services

SFA | School Finance Act

SFA | School Food Authority

SFSP | Summer Food Service Program

SI | Sensory Integration

S/I | Supplemental/Intervention

SIED | Significant Identifiable Emotional Disability

SIG | State Improvement Grant

SILC | Supporting Inclusive Learning Communities

SIMR | State-Identified Measurable Results for Children with Disabilities

SIP | State Implementation Plan

SIP | School Improvement Plan

SIP | State Improvement Plan

SLD | Specific Learning Disability

SLD | School and Library Division (E-rate)

SLDS | Statewide Longitudinal Data System

SLI | Speech/Language Impairment

SLIC | Significant Limited Intellectual Capacity

SLO | Student Learning Objectives

SLP | Speech/Language Pathologist

SMART | Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent

SMART | Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Research-based, Time-phased

SMP | Special Milk Program

SOA | School of Accountability

SOP | State Operated Program

S/P | Severe/Profound

SPDG | State Personnel Development Grant

SPED | Special Education

SPF | School Performance Frameworks

SPGP | School Professional Grant Program

SPL | State Publications Library

SPL | Student Performance Level

SPOA | Specific Power of Attorney

SPP | State Performance Plan

SRO | School Resource Officer

SRSA | Small Rural School Achievement

SSAE | Title IV Student Support and Academic Enrichment

SSAS | Statewide System for Accountability and Support

SSDI | Social Security Disability Income

SSI | Supplemental Security Income

SSIP | State Systemic Improvement Plan

SSN | Significant Support Needs

SSRG | Safe Schools Reopening Grant (SSRG)

SST | Student Study Team

SST | School Support Team

SSTEP | School Support Team Evaluation Program

SSW | School Social Work Services

STAR | Standardized Test for Assessment of Reading

STAR | State Top Achievement Recognition

STC | School to Career

STEM | Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics

SW | Schoolwide

SWAAAC | Statewide Assistive, Augmentative Alternative Communication

SWAP | Southwest Assessment Partners

SWAP | School to Work Alliance Program

SWCC | Southwest Comprehensive Center

SWD | Students with Disabilities

SWIFT | Statewide Interlibrary Loan Fast Track

SWP | Schoolwide Program (Schoolwide at CDE means that non-Title I students are included)

TA | Targeted Assistance (Title I)

TA | Technical Assistance

TABE | Tests of Adult Basic Education

TABOR | Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights

TAC | Transportation Advisory Council

TA&D | Technical Assistance and Dissemination Network funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)

TANF | Temporary Assistance to Needy Families

TAP | Transition Action Plan

TAS | Targeted Assistance School

TASSIE | Title I Accountability Systems and School Improvement Efforts

TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury

TCAP | Transitional Colorado Assessment Program

TCPU | Transportation, Communications and Public Utilities

TDD | Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf

TDG | Teacher Development Grants

TDIP | Targeted District Improvement Partnership

TIE | Technology in Education (now InnEdCO, Innovative Education in Colorado

TIG | Tiered Intervention Grant

TIMSS | Third International Mathematics and Science Study

TIR | Teacher in Residence

TLAP | Technology Literacy Assessment Program

TLCC | Teaching and Learning Conditions Colorado (formerly TELL Colorado)

TLF | Technology Leadership Forum

TLCF | Old acronym for Technology Literacy Challenge Fund which has been replaced by E2T2 –Enhancing Education through Technology

TLU | Teaching and Learning Unit

TMH | Trainable Mentally Handicapped (no longer used)

TMR | Trainable Mentally Retarded (no longer used)

TNTP | The New Teacher Project

ToD | Teacher of the Deaf

TOSA | Teacher on Special Assignment

TOT | Training of Trainers

TOY | Colorado Teacher of the Year

TP | Transition Plan

TS | Tourette Syndrome

TS GOLD | Teaching Strategies GOLD™

TSCP | Technical Support Consultant Program

TSDL | Teacher-Student Data Link

T-TA | Training and Technical Assistance

TTE | Temporary Teacher Eligibility

TTY | Teletypewriter (phone system for the deaf)

TVI | Teacher of Students Who Are Visually Impaired

TWWIIA | Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act

UCD | University of Colorado at Denver

UIP | Unified Improvement Planning

UNC | University of Northern Colorado

UPK | Universal Preschool

USAC | Universal Service Administrative Company

USDA | United States Department of Agriculture

USDE | United States Department of Education

USDOE | United States Department of Education

USDOT | United States Department of Transportation

VD | Visually Disabled

VI | Visual Impairment

Voc Ed | Vocational Education

VR | Vocational Rehabilitation

W-APT | WIDA-ACCESS Placement Test for Kindergarten

WBPD | Web-based Professional Development

WDC | Workforce Development Council

WIA | Workforce Investment Act

WIB | Workforce Investment Boards

WIC | Women, Infants and Children (Special Supplemental Food Program)

WIDA Consortium | World-Class Instruction Design and Assessment

WIOA | Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

WISE | Web-based Inquiry Science Environment

WRAT | Wide Range Achievement Test

WSCC | Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child

WWC | What Works Clearinghouse

504 | Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 – a civil rights statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
21stCCLC | 21st Century Community Learning Centers
2e | Twice Exceptional or Twice-Exceptional