NHSES

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NHSES

• Status Report to
• NH Association of Special Education
  Administrators
• Manchester, NH

April 15, 2005
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New Hampshire Special Education System (NHSES)

• Project Overview
• Contractual features
• Project timeline
• Core Product Offering EasyIEP
• Product advantages and features
• Managing Compliance
• Reports
• NH Modifications
• Data captured
• Programs and program approvals
• Financial management
• Summary

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Project Overview

• Contract awarded to Public Consulting Group, Inc.
  (PCG) effective February 9, 2005
• Two phases
• I. NHSES IFSP and IEP
• II. Student Information System
• Phase I based on existing EasyIEP product
  offering
• Installed in 10 states
• Serves more than 500,000 students in over 900
  school districts
• 22,000 current systems users
• Customized and configured to NH needs
• Supports clients age 0 to 21
• Administers SPED programs for approval and
  placement
• Tracks financial information ( including
  Catastrophic Aid, Chapter 402 reimbursement,
  Medicaid, )

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Project Timeline
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Core Product Overview -- EasyIEP

• Product Features
• Sample Screen Shots
• Sample Reports

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EasyIEP Overview

• A flexible Internet-based solution for the
  development and management of IEP information and
  reports that
• improves compliance and accountability
• provides instant access to information
• provides administrators with a full set of
  management and compliance reports
• Hosted at NH Department of Education
• Data is captured when decisions are made not
  entered after the fact
• Designed for use by educators and specialists

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EasyIEP System Highlights
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EasyIEP Benefits
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EasyIEP Screen Shots -- Drill Down Compliance
From District Level
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Users that have access to specific schools
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Drill-down continued of particular user caseload
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Student Demographics
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Adding Assessments
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Process for adding Goals and Objectives Step I
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Adding Goals Step II
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Adding Goals Step III
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Adding Objectives
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Adding Objectives Step II
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Complete Screen of Goal and Objectives for Student
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Adding Related Services
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Adding Related Services II
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Logging Services
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Sample Special Education Documents Available
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Sample Reports Menu
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Sample Report USDOE
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Sample Report - FAPE
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NH Customizations

• Data captured
• Programs and program approvals
• Financial Management
• State-hosting

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NH Data Captured
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NH Data Captured (Continued)
Level requirements are (B) for both State
and Schools/Districts/SAUs, (S) for the
Bureau of Special Education, (D) for
Schools/Districts/SAUs.
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Presentation Summary

• Project is currently in requirements phase
• Working on dropdowns
• Verifying processes
• Analyzing reports
• For more information, contact
• Terri Morrill, (tmorrill_at_ed.state.nh.us),
  603-271-3737