Special Education Directors Sept 09 Call

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Special Education Directors Sept 09 Call

• Get Current Federal and State News and Updates

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State Updates

• Graduation Requirements

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Campus Updates

• http//doe.sd.gov/ofm/sims/index.asp
• SIMS Newsletter

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Enrollment Codes

• Resident/Serving (Attending) Districts
• B Placed and Paid by Tribal
• For use by the BIE schools
• C Contracting Student
• For use if your district contracts students to
  an out of state educational program or your
  district receives students from a contracting
  district
• E Placed and Paid by DSS
• Students in auxiliary placement through the
  Department of Social Services
• includes students placed by tribal court who are
  eligible for auxiliary placement through DSS
• G Whole Grade Sharing
• Refer to SDCL 13-15-31
• J Placed and Paid by Corrections
• Most of these students are in a JDC
• Not students placed by court services

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Enrollment Codes

• Resident/Serving (Attending) Districts
• M Parentally Placed in Private
• For use by private schools
• O Open Enrollment
• When a student lives in one district but chooses
  to attend in another district
• P Tuition Paid by District
• The resident district is paying for the students
  placement at another district/facility
• T Tuition Paid by Other
• To cover any situation that is not covered by one
  of the other codes
• W Tuition Waived
• This is used by the School for the Blind and the
  School for the Deaf

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Crosswalk

• SPlaced and Paid by the State D Placed and
  Paid by DSS
• If Attending District is
• Abbott House 17306
• Ability Building Services 63306
• Advance 05303
• Black Hills Special Services Coop Canyon Hills
  40201
• Chamberlain Academy 07303
• Huron Area Center for Independence 02305
• Human Service Agency (ATCO) 14307
• Childrens Home Society Black Hills and Sioux
  Falls 49320
• Springfield Academy 04301
• McCrossans Boys Ranch 49329
• Sky Ranch 31301
• Southeastern Behavioral Healthcare 49334
• SD Achieve (Sioux Vocational Services) 49319
• Oahe Inc. 32304
• Childrens Care Hospital and School 49316

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Crosswalk

• SPlaced and Paid by the State J Placed and
  Paid by Corrections
• If Attending District is
• State Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (STAR)
  16303

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Out of District Placements

• Private School 98 (For Public School Use Only)
• This attendance center will be used to hold
  students that are in early childhood and/or Out
  of District placements, students that may be in a
  private school but your school provides special
  services to them for a percentage of time. Any
  student that has 0 enrolled will be excluded
  from any funding calculations. Please make sure
  that any student that should be counted for
  funding purposes has a greater than 0 enrolled
  on their enrollment record.
• Out of State-Private School 91
• This attendance center allows school districts
  bordering another state to report resident
  students that may be attending private schools in
  another state. The reporting of these students
  will allow the Department of Education to include
  these students in the count for state and county
  apportionment purposes. If you have questions
  about your districts eligibility, contact Susan
  Woodmansey at [phone] or
  susan.woodmansey_at_state.sd.us.
• Contracting Students
• If you district contracts to an out of state
  educational program (authorized under SDCL
  13-15-11), students must be included and reported
  as attending out-of-state and also have an
  enrollment status of C. If receiving students
  from a contracting district (authorized under
  SDCL 13-27-1.3), student must be reported with an
  enrollment status of C.

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Enrollment

• Reporting Percent of Day Enrollment. (See New
  Admin Rule 24170107)
• For the purposes of reporting day enrollment, a
  full-time student or 100 percent enrolled student
  is any student who is carrying a full course
  load. The term, full course load, means any
  student who is enrolled in at least five courses
  or is scheduled for a full school day. The term,
  full school day, means the amount time in the day
  between the start and end of classes during an
  average school day. If any student is enrolled in
  less than five classes or does not attend school
  for the full school day, the student shall be
  reported based on the percentage of classes taken
  or the portion of the full school day that the
  student is in school.

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Assessment
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Ordering

• STEP testing
• Continues to be ordered based on Campus
  enrollment no changes
• If ordered Large Print and Braille previously,
  still do so no changes
• STEP-A
• Will be ordered by the resident district
  changed this year

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Highly Qualified

• Teacher 411
• View teachers with state certification
  https//apps.sd.gov/applications/de04public/Teache
  rLookup/TeacherSearch.aspx
• HQT Status access a list of core content areas

• The Personnel Record Form (PRF) system is NOW
  OPEN!
• All personnel for the 2009-2010 school year
  should be entered
• SPED teaching core content subjects and teacher
  of record should be coded under those subject
  assignment codes, not SPED
• PRF system will be closed October 15, 2009 to
  pull data and for clean up
• Can go back in at any time after it is reopened
  to update personnel information
• Changes have been made to help with reporting
• Technical Assistance Manuals can be found at the
  bottom of the PRF webpage
• http//doe.sd.gov/ofm/prf/index.asp
• Questions?Please contact Alicia Schoenhard at
  773-3219

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Paraprofessional Data Collection

• Data needs to be
• Broken down by Ages 3-5 and 6-21
• 08-09 School Year
• Official Spreadsheet
• Sent via Sped Director listserv
• FROM Jennifer Rattling Leaf
• Spreadsheet due back to Alicia October 1, 2009
• This information was not collected in the PRF
  system last year, but has been updated to do so
  for the 2009-2010 school year
• No paraprofessional, please indicate and return

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State Performance Plan

• Information
• Due Dates, Data Entry, Training

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Indicator 11

• Change to collection requirements beginning
  2009-2010
• Must collect students receiving Birth to 3
  services when they are tested for eligibility for
  Part B prior to age 3
• Collected on separate worksheet in the Initial
  Evals spreadsheet

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Indicator 11

• Change to collection requirements beginning
  2009-2010
• 2009-2010 spreadsheet and directions posted on
  SPP page at
• http//doe.sd.gov/oess/specialed/SPP/index.asp

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Indicator 14 Clarifications

• ONLY students who
• Age out (21)
• Graduated with Regular Diploma
• Age 21 students, who met the regular diploma
  criteria
• Dropped Out and did not return
• GED Testing Students
• Congruency SIMS to Indicator 14

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Check Indicator 14 Data

• Do not report students
• Moved to another education setting
• DOC, Yankton Training Center, another school,
  etc
• Student received Certificate of Completion to
  walk with graduating class and continues
• Do not qualify for sped at exit
• Refuse services before exit
• Unsigned diploma unless dropped or age out.

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What to do?

• District Report feature in system
• Corrections can still be made on September 15,
  2009
• If they continue enrollment in 09-10, contact
  Melissa.Flor_at_state.sd.us to delete them out of
  the system.

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Data Verification

• Data verification letters going out this week
• Two weeks to appeal data
• Query on Modified Assessment Eligibility
• Students pre-identified, but not inclusive
• Additional criteria need to be applied
• Send eligible count back to Linda Turner

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Modified Assessment Eligibility

• Student must
• Be eligible for special education in any of the
  13 disability areas for ages 6-21
• Have two consecutive years of state assessment
  results at basic or below basic on which the
  student received appropriate accommodations
• Be on an active IEP with goals focusing on making
  progress towards meeting grade level content
  standards
• Be unlikely to achieve grade level proficiency
  during the current IEP
• Have formative assessments based on two previous
  reporting periods that demonstrate below grade
  level proficiency

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Federal Updates
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OSEP Updated QA

• Discipline (June 2009) 
• http//idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/2Croot2Cdynam
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• Disproportionality (June 2009)
  http//idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/2Croot2Cdynami
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• Procedural safeguards (June 2009)
  http//idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/2Croot2Cdynami
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• Monitoring and technical assistance (June 2009)
  http//idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/2Croot2Cdynami
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• Secondary transition (June 2009)
  http//idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/2Croot2Cdynami
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Question and Answer

• Next Call October 20, 2009 at 1000 am CST.