Special Education
This is a project template to explore data related to special education in Texas public schools as part of Reporting with Data in R. It includes all the data files needed to complete the chapters.
What is TAPR
The Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR) is a tool provided by the Texas Education Agency to find and download a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district. New reports are published for each academic year. The data is very detailed with breakdowns by student groups, including ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
Included in these reports are the percentage of students in special education, which is what we are after.
Our goal is to find how the percentage of education students has changed over time.