The Child Find, Evaluation and ARD Supports Network assists LEAs by providing resources and training that are aligned with implementing effective Child Find practices, conducting comprehensive evaluations, and practicing collaborative admission, review and dismissal (ARD) committee processes that lead to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for students with disabilities

The purpose of the project is to provide and maintain an updated web-based platform to assist stakeholders such as local educational agencies (LEAs), advocates, and parents in learning about state and federal laws and regulations by providing rich resources regarding obligations and rights for the provision of a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment to students with disabilities.

SpedTex is committed to providing families and educators with high-quality resources to enable students with disabilities to achieve the highest outcomes. 

Find resources and binders aligned to individual TEKS standards.

These developmental milestones show what most children (75% or more) can do by each age. Subject matter experts selected these milestones based on available data and expert consensus.

Region 4, in collaboration with ESCs 3, 9, 11, 12, and 20 and with permission from the Texas Education Agency (TEA), created a series of TEKS-based, instructional decision making guides for educators working with students on alternate academic standards (prerequisite skills that are linked and/or aligned with grade-level standards. The guides were developed to cluster prerequisite skills (with an essence statement) and combine several aspects of the State's Vertical Alignment and Curriculum Framework documents for greater ease in selecting instructional targets. A separate guide was created for each essence statement (even those not assessed in a given year) in reading, math, writing, science and social studies. Educators will want to examine the current year's essence statements to be sure they are instructing in all of the essence statements to be assessed within a particular school year. Click below to access the guides.

As part of the April 2018 special education strategic plan, TEA incorporated stakeholder feedback, data, and interviews to reimagine the network structure.  As a result, the current networks launched July 1, 2019.