The education system is truly accountable when parents know how well their children are doing in school, and when the public knows how well the education system is doing.
Accountability includes monitoring, auditing and program review.
Although collecting information about services provided to students with special needs is essential for continuous improvement to practice, this may raise concerns about labelling of students. It is important to ensure that data collection systems are designed and implemented to influence best practice and to minimize any detrimental effects of labelling individuals. The ministry is expanding its ability to review and improve services to students. In addition to auditing special education program enrolments to ensure that students with special needs receive appropriate special education services, each school is periodically reviewed through the accreditation process. The ministry is committed to strengthening this process to ensure effective delivery of special education services, to undertake district-level special education program reviews, and to expand the information it collects to monitor and improve special education programs.