ATTENTION ALL NDE PORTAL USERS:
Please log onto your portal accounts and go to the “My Profile” tab and check to make sure your contact information (especially the email address) is up to date. It is very important to keep this information updated as the Department of Education uses the email address that is in the users’ Portal account to send vital information.
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IDEA MOE for Compliance Standard – OPENING: March 30 – CLOSE DATE: May 15

OPENS
03/30/2023
CLOSES
05/15/2022

IDEA Part B Special Education Maintenance of Effort (MOE) Application for Compliance Standard for the school year 2021-2022 opens March 30. The report may be accessed within the NDE Portal under the Data Collection tab. An activation code is required to add the collection to Portal accounts, which can be obtained from the District Administrator.

School district receipt of IDEA dollars is contingent upon maintaining fiscal effort for Special Education. Districts must expend a greater or equal amount of local or local/state funds from a previous year’s highest level to meet the MOE requirement. Final calculations based on actual special education school district expenditures/receipts/data obtained from the 2021-2022 AFR, GMS, and ADVISER are available and have been compared to the highest levels of fiscal effort. As a result, calculations for meeting the IDEA MOE Compliance Standard may have resulted in a MOE excess or shortage that requires school district review for determination of adjustments or credits that could modify the MOE level.

Contact Information: Greg Prochazka (greg.prochazka@nebraska.gov)

Consolidated Data Collection (CDC) Collections for Public School Districts – Opened March 1 – Due May 1

OPENS
03/01/2023
CLOSES
05/01/2023

Nonpublic Federal Programs Within Boundaries Consultation

Every public school district in Nebraska that has one or more nonpublic systems located within the public school district’s geographic boundaries must complete this form.  It is the responsibility of the public school district to submit this completed form to the Nebraska Department of Education. A form will need to be completed for each nonpublic system geographically located within the public school district attendance area to document that the nonpublic system was consulted regarding potential participation in a federal program.

For more information, contact Jim Kent at jim.kent@nebraska.gov.

Title I Nonpublic Consultation Form

Every District receiving Title I funds and having resident low-income school aged students attending a nonpublic school will need to complete this collection. The public district is not required to complete or submit a Title I Nonpublic Consultation form for Rule 12 or 13 exempt status schools. A form will need to be completed for each nonpublic system that has reported having students eligible for free or reduced lunch as reported in the Nonpublic Membership Report.

For more information contact Jim Kent at jim.kent@nebraska.gov.

Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (ADVISERHelp@nebraskacloud.org)

New CDC staff data collection for Special Education Teacher Retention opening 3/1/2023

OPENS
03/01/2023
CLOSES
03/31/2023

A new Consolidated Data Collections (CDC) app has been recently added and is opening as of March 1, 2023 for collecting data until March 31, 2023 for all public districts and ESUs in the NDE Portal. This new collection identifies staff that were listed as a Special Education Teacher in the prior year’s Staff Reporting data who are not identified in the same position in the current school year. For these staff, this new CDC app will collect a reason that each of these staff were not retained by the district. In future school years, this CDC collection is planned to open on 12/1 and close by 1/31 each year, referencing the Staff Reporting data that was entered in the Fall.

 

The instructions for the new CDC collection can be found at NDE’s website here. In addition, this new collection was featured in the January 2023 NDE data conference webinar – please refer to the slides and recording found at NEDataConference.com.

Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (ADVISERHelp@nebraskacloud.org)