What is Assurances

This chapter examines ways in which a school or school district can look at its service delivery models to ensure that certain strategies are in place, such as monitoring, evaluation, supervision, inspection, and quality control. These procedures can then be reviewed, either by an outside agency or by the special education program itself, as an evaluation tool to determine if the service delivery model is meeting the standard as well as identifying areas that need improvements. The chapter also discusses the standards that the Council of Exceptional Children has established—which all stakeholders, administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents—must abide by in order to have a distinguished special education program. The chapter concludes with a discussion about future trends in regard to the quality that should be visible for all service delivery models in special education.