Appendix A: Definitions Refers to students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. Low-income student: Refers to the combined group of children who are identified as High incidence disability: having a specific learning disability, communication impairment, or other health impairment. Refers to the combined group of students with neurological Low incidence disability: impairments, multiple disabilities, physical disabilities, and sensory impairments. Refers to an educational placement in either a private special Out-of-district placement: education school or a special education collaborative program. For more detailed information on Massachusetts private special education schools see: . For more detailed information on Massachusetts special education collaborative programs see: . Based on terms used by the U.S. Department of Education for Educational placement: reporting the Least Restrictive Environment, educational placements for students with disabilities are identified as follows: Placements where students spend 80 percent or more of the day in Full Inclusion: classrooms with their non-disabled peers. Placements where students spend 40-79 percent of the day in Partial Inclusion: classrooms with their non-disabled peers. Placements where students spend less than 40 percent of Substantially Separate: the day in classrooms with their non-disabled peers. There are four types of Career and Technical Career and Technical Education Programs: Education Programs in the Commonwealth: Regional In this category we combined two Vocational and Technical Schools: broad types of schools. The first broad group is regional vocational and technical where the entire student body participates in some form of CTE and schools, where students are drawn from several surrounding communities. The second broad group included in this category was county and statewide agricultural which look very much like the regional vocational and technical schools, schools, but with a greater focus on agriculture, horticulture, and environmental science. Altogether, 29 schools were included in this category. City There were five Vocational and Technical Schools: city vocational and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As with their regional technical schools counterparts, all students in these schools participated in some form of CTE. However, the students here originated solely from the specific city in which the given school was located, rather than drawing from several municipalities. These
Appendix A: Definitions Low-income student: Refers to students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. High incidence disability: Refers to the combined group of children who are identified as having a specific learning disability, communication impairment, or other health impairment. Low incidence disability: Refers to the combined group of students with neurological impairments, multiple disabilities, physical disabilities, and sensory impairments. Out-of-district placement: Refers to an educational placement in either a private special education school or a special education collaborative program. For more detailed information on Massachusetts private special education schools see: . For more detailed information on Massachusetts special education collaborative programs see: . Educational placement: Based on terms used by the U.S. Department of Education for reporting the Least Restrictive Environment, educational placements for students with disabilities are identified as follows: Full Inclusion: Placements where students spend 80 percent or more of the day in classrooms with their non-disabled peers. Partial Inclusion: Placements where students spend 40-79 percent of the day in classrooms with their non-disabled peers. Substantially Separate: Placements where students spend less than 40 percent of the day in classrooms with their non-disabled peers. Career and Technical Education Programs: There are four types of Career and Technical Education Programs in the Commonwealth: Regional Vocational and Technical Schools: In this category we combined two broad types of schools. The first broad group is regional vocational and technical schools, where the entire student body participates in some form of CTE and where students are drawn from several surrounding communities. The second broad group included in this category was county and statewide agricultural schools, which look very much like the regional vocational and technical schools, but with a greater focus on agriculture, horticulture, and environmental science. Altogether, 29 schools were included in this category. City Vocational and Technical Schools: There were five city vocational and technical schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As with their regional counterparts, all students in these schools participated in some form of CTE. However, the students here originated solely from the specific city in which the given school was located, rather than drawing from several municipalities. These
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