Accessible pathways: including multilingual learners with low-incidence sensory disabilities

This Project Grant award of $3,999,688.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Competitive Grants for State Assessments (CFDA 84.368) program supports the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) in enhancing the quality, validity, and reliability of the state's academic assessment instruments and systems. The project, titled "ACCESSIBLE PATHWAYS: INCLUDING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS WITH LOW-INCIDENCE SENSORY DISABILITIES", will run from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028. The funding will enable MDE to develop innovative approaches to measuring student academic achievement and growth, with a particular focus on improving assessment methodologies for multilingual learners and students with low-incidence sensory disabilities. The project aims to create more comprehensive, instructionally embedded evaluation systems to better support student learning and development across Minnesota's elementary and secondary schools.