<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This is good, but it doesn't represent every blind student from every state. Still interesting, though.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Jan 29, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Penny Duffy <<a href="mailto:pennyduffy@gmail.com">pennyduffy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">ok the information is kinda there.. It was very hard to find. <div><br></div><div>here is the most recent report i could find from 2012 (data from 2011)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aph.org/federal-quota/dist12.html">http://www.aph.org/federal-quota/dist12.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Penny Duffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pennyduffy@gmail.com" target="_blank">pennyduffy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I guess the question is who collects the data. I wondering if its because of confidentially concerns but i don't' see why they can't provide learning medium totals. I know my state's ex officio trustee and i may just ask her. One issue with the APH totals is it doesn't count all blind students (NH was able to raise its numbers by 20 to 30 percent by just reaching out to different populations that don't always get counted.<div>
<br></div><div> I just found that they are required to collect the following data <div><div><br></div><div><br><ul style="list-style-position:initial;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:21.119998931884766px;font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans','Liberation Sans',Geneva,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em 30px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Name</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Date of birth</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">School system or agency in which student is enrolled</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Grade Placement</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Measurement of vision in right eye</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Measurement of vision in left eye</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Primary reading medium</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Primary Language of Learner – NEW beginning with 2010 Census</li>
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