Episode notes
Here are some words to live by: It pays to be prepared. As states get ready to take part in OSEP’s differentiated monitoring and support 2.0 (DMS), they might be asking what can we do to prepare for the process? What is DMS 2.0 like? And, crucially, how will our efforts help improve our state’s IDEA data? In part one of this special two-part A Date with Data, host Amy Bitterman heads south to the Magnolia State to chat with the Mississippi Department of Special Education’s Jennifer Boykin and the Bureau of Data and Compliance’s Sharon Coon for an up-close look at this all-important process.