• General
• DMS 2.0
• Onsite
• Data Process New
• Monitoring Revised

Reference: ed.gov DMS

OSEP monitors all IDEA Part C and B programs through its Differentiated Monitoring and Support (DMS) 2.0 system, primarily looking at how the state conducts general supervision.

General supervision encompasses each state’s responsibility to ensure that the state and its subgrantees and contractors meet the requirements of IDEA which includes:

• Improving educational results and functional outcomes for all children with disabilities, and early intervention results and functional outcomes for all infants and toddlers with disabilities; and
• Ensuring that public agencies meet the program requirements under Parts B and C of IDEA, with a particular emphasis on those requirements that are most closely related to improving early intervention results for infants and toddlers with disabilities and educational results for children and youth with disabilities.

As outlined in the DMS Framework, OSEP will examine the state’s policies and procedures and state-level implementation of these policies and procedures regarding the following components of general supervision:

• Monitoring and Improvement
• Data, including the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR)
• Fiscal Management
• Dispute Resolution

Reports for other entities which have completed their DMS 2.0 reviews (eg., American Samoa) are available at the referenced site at the top of this page.