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B
- Bilingual Education
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- Career & Technical Education
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- Central Accounting
- Certification, Teacher
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- Commissioner of Education
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- Data Reporting System (DRS)
- Data & Information Services (enrollment & district tables)
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- Data, Research and Evaluation
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- Dating Violence Prevention
- Deaf-Blind Project
- Deca - Distributive Education Clubs of America
- Directory - Nebraska Education
- Discipline - Teacher/Administrator
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- ECICC (Early Childhood Interagency Coordinating Council)
- Early Development Network (Early Intervention)
- Early Childhood Education
- Early Childhood Special Education
- Early Childhood Training Center (Omaha)
- Early Intervention - Programs
- Educational Service Units (see ESU)
- Education Technology Center
- Educationally Disadvantaged, Title I
- Educator Preparation
- Email Principals
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- Employment with NDE
- English Language Learners(ELL)
- English/Language Arts
- Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program
- Enrollment Option Program
- Entrepreneurship Education
- Environmental & Agricultural Systems Career Field
- Equal Educational Opportunity
- Equity & Instructional Strategies
- ESU Accreditation - Rule 84
- ESU Annual Financial Report
- ESU Core Services & Technology Infrastructure
- ESU Reorganization - Rule 85
- Ethics, Educators
- Excellence in Ed. Annual Staff Development Conference
- Exempt (Home) Schools
- Exessive Absenteeism, Year-End data from NSSRS
- Eyes on Nebraska Schools
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- Family, Career & Community Leaders of America - FCCLA
- Family & Consumer Sciences
- Family/Community Engagement
- Federal Programs
- Finance & Organizational Services (FOS)
- Fingerprinting, Teacher Certification
- First Connections
- Foreign/World Language Education
- Free & Reduced Price Meals
- Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
- Future Educators Association (FEA)
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- GED and Adult Education
- Grants Management System (GMS)
- Grants Management System (Payments)
- Green Ribbon Schools
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- Head Start
- Health Education
- Health Sciences Career Field/FCCLA
- High Ability Learners Education (HAL)
- High Schools That Work (HSTW)
- HIV/AIDS Education
- Home Schools (Exempt Schools)
- Homeless Education
- Hotline for Disability Services
- Human Resources
- Human Sciences & Education Career Field
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- IDEA (Individuals w/Disabilities Education Act)
- IFSP (Individual Family Service Plan
- ILCD (Improving Learning for Children With Disabilities)
- iTunes U
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- Job Openings/Vacancies
K
- Kindergarten/Primary Education
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- Language Arts Education
- LC-2 Form (School District Budgeting)
- Learning Technologies - NCLB Part II D
- Limited English Proficient (LEP)
- Loan Forgiveness for Teachers
- Lunch Program-Financial
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- Mathematics & Science Partnership Grant Program
- Mathematics Education
- Meetings and Conferences
- Migrant Education/Title I, PartC
- Migrant Education - Financial
- Milken Educators
- Multicultural & Native American Education
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- (NAEP) National Assessment of Educational Progress
- Native American Education
- Nebraska Academy of Sciences
- Nebraska Career Connections
- Nebraska Career Education (NCE)
- NCECBVI
- NCE Data + Research + Analytics (DRAW)
- Nebraska Childfind
- Nebraska Council on Teacher Education (NCTE)
- Nebraska Milken Educators
- Nebraska Positive Behavioral Interventions & Support (NPBIS)
- Nebraska Student & Staff Record System (NSSRS)
- Nebraska Teacher Education
- Nebraska's 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant
- Neglected or Delinquent
- Network, Education and Technology Team (NEaT)
- No Child Left Behind
- NCLB Qualified Teachers
- NCLB Paraprofessionals
- NCLB Updates (Telecasts)
- North Central Association
- Nutrition Services
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- Office of Early Childhood
- Option Enrollment (Enrollment Option Program)
- Organization Services
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- Parent Involvement
- Payment Information
- Physical Education
- Planning Region Teams
- Poverty & LEP Plan Assistance
- Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST)
- PreK - 16 Initiative
- Press Releases
- Private Postsecondary Career Schools & Veterans Education
- Private K-12 Schools
- Pupil Transportation
- Professional Practices Commission
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- Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCB)
- Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (QZAB)
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- Race To The Top
- Reading/Writing Education
- Records Retention
- Response to Intervention (RtI)
- Restraint and Seclusion
- Results Matter
- Retirement - State & School Plan Information
- Rules & Regulations - Web Access
- Rule 1 - School Audit Procedures
- Rule 2 - Uniform Accounting System
- Rule 3 - High Ability Learner Ed
- Rule 4 - Textbook Loan Program
- Rule 8 - School Finance & Budgeting/State Funding of ESUs & Learning Communities
- Rule 9 - Proration of Affiliated School System Bond Funds
- Rule 10 - School Accreditation
- Rule 11 - Early childhood Education Programs
- Rule 12 - Exempt Schools
- Rule 13 - Exempt Schools
- Rule 14 - School Approval
- Rule 15 - Education of Students with LEP
- Rule 15 - Education of Students with LEP GUIDE
- Rule 17 - Alternative Programs for Expelled Students
- Rule 18 - Interim Program Schools
- Rule 19 - School Enrollment
- Rule 20 - Teachers College Approval
- Rule 20 - Teachers College Approval GUIDELINES
- Rule 21 - Teacher Certification
- Rule 22 - Master Teacher Program
- Rule 23 - Teacher Testing - Basic Skills
- Rule 24 - Endorsements
- Rule 24 - Endorsements GUIDELINES
- Rule 25 - Regulations Governing the Excellence in Teaching Act
- Rule 26 - Mentor Teacher Program
- Rule 27 - Professional Practices Criteria
- Rule 28 - Professional Practices Investigations
- Rule 29 - Professional Practices Hearings
- Rule 41 - Private PS Career Schools
- Rule 42 - Private PS Career Schools Agents
- Rule 43 - Private PS Career Schools Complaints
- Rule 44 - Private PS Career Schools Tuition Recov. Cash Fund
- Rule 45 - Vocational Student Organizations
- Rule 46 - Career Education Partnership Act Grants
- Rule 51 - Special Education Programs
- Rule 53 - Special Education Residential Care
- Rule 55 - Special Education Appeals
- Rule 59 - Regulations for School Health & Safety
- Rule 61 - Contested Cases & Rulings
- Rule 62 - Rules Adoption/Revision/Repeal
- Rule 63 - Rulemaking Petitions
- Rule 64 - Negotiated Rulemaking
- Rule 71 - Formal Review of Rehab Services
- Rule 72 - Financial Part & Cost Cont. for Voc. Rehab Srvs.
- Rule 81 - High School Equivalency
- Rule 83 - State Committee for the Reorg. of School Districts
- Rule 84 - ESU Regulations
- Rule 85 - ESU Reorganization
- Rule 86 - School Breakfast Reimbursement
- Rule 87 - Qualified Zone Academy Bonds
- Rule 88 - School Technology Fund Program
- Rule 89 - Education Innovation Fund Program
- Rule 91 - Driver Qual. & Op. Proc. for Pupil Trans. Vechiles(Implementetion 11/26/2012)
- Rule 92- Min. Equip. Stand. & Safety Crit. for Public Trans. Veh.(Implementetion 11/26/2012)
- Rules & Regulations
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- Safe & Drug Free Schools
- Safe & Drug Free Schools - Financial
- School Buses
- School Bond or Agent Bond
- School Counseling Programs
- School District Budgeting
- School Evaluation/Improvement
- School Finance
- School Improvement Grant (SIG)
- School Reorganization
- School Safety
- Schoolwide (Title I)
- Science Education
- Senate Youth Program
- Skilled & Technical Sciences
- SkillsUSA Nebraska
- Social Studies Education
- Special Education
- Special Grant Funds - Lid Exclusion
- Staff Development
- Staff Directory
- Staff Development Conference
- Standards
- Standards Instructional Tool (SIT)
- Standards - Social Studies/History
- Standards - Mathematics
- Standards - Reading/Writing
- Standards - Science
- Standards, Assessment & Accountability
- State Aid
- State Board of Education
- State Committee for the Reorganization of School Districts
- State ICC (Interagency Coordinating Council)
- State of the Schools Report
- State Personnel Development Grant
- Statewide Assessment
- Student Absences Data
- Student Transportation
- Summer Food Program - Financial
- Summer Food Service Program
- Supplemental Education Services (SES) Title I
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- Teach in Nebraska
- Teacher Certification
- Teacher Education
- Teacher of the Year
- Teacher Retirement
- Teacher Shortage/Vacancy
- Technology
- Textbook Loan Program - Rule 4
- Title I
- Title I - Financial
- Title IPart D - Neglected or Delinquent
- Title I Part B subpart C - Even Start Family Literacy
- Title II A - Teacher & Principal Training
- Title II A - Financial
- Title II B - Math & Science Partnerships
- Title II D - Financial
- Title III (NCLB)- Limited English
- Title III (NCLB) - Financial
- Title IV A - Financial
- Title IV B - 21st Cent. Comm. Lrn. Cntr. Grant Prog. NCLB
- Title V A (NCLB) - Innovative Programs
- Title V - Financial
- Title X A - Homeless Education
- Transcripts - GED/Diplomas
- Transcripts - Private/Postsecondary
- Transition to Teaching
- Twenty First Century Comm. Learning Center Grant Prog.
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- USDA Food & Nutrition Services Programs
V
- Veterans Education
- Visual/Performing Arts Education
- Visualy Handicapped NE Center (NCECVBI)
- Vocational Rehabilitation
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- Writing Assessment
- Work-Based Learning
- World Languages Education - Foreign Language Education
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Commissioner of Education

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Mission Statement

2013 Administrators' Days - NDE Day

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2012 Administrators' Days - NDE Day

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Fewer K-12 Students Absent
20 Days or More

Fewer Nebraska students missed 20 days or more of school in 2010-11, compared to 2009-10 data tracking the number and percentage of students absent.

Commissioner
Roger Breed
402-471-5020
roger.breed@nebraska.gov
Administrative Assistant to the Commissioner
Denise Fisher
402-471-5020
denise.fisher@nebraska.gov
Assistant Commissioner
Brian Halstead
402-471-0732
brian.halstead@nebraska.gov
Office Associate
Lora Sypal
402-471-5059
lora.sypal@nebraska.gov

Deputy Commissioner
Scott Swisher
402-471-5024
scott.swisher@nebraska.gov
Administrative Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner
Cheryl Breasseale
402-471-5024
cheryl.breasseale@nebraska.gov
Public Information Officer
Betty VanDeventer
402-471-4537
betty.vandeventer@nebraska.gov
Professional Practices Commission
Kathi Vontz
402-471-2943
kathi.vontz@nebraska.gov