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.
NDE Portal

Request for District Curriculum Contact Updates

Public Districts

Please be sure to update your District’s Curriculum Contacts in the NDE portal. “Curriculum Contacts” are staff who provide support related to curriculum, standards, instruction, and instructional materials. If appropriate, please provide a primary and secondary contact.

Curriculum Contacts can be updated via the NDE portal within the District Contact Information data collection. Contact your Superintendent for access.

Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)

Civil Rights Data Collection now open for 2023-2024 school year


DUE DATE
03/07/2025

Public Districts

The Office of Civil Rights’ CRDC submission system is now open at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/crdc/. Districts must enter, review, and submit their data by March 7, 2025. Superintendents should have received email notices about accessing the submission system directly from the CRDC support center. If your district needs access please contact them via https://crdc.communities.ed.gov/.

NDE will NOT submit any data on behalf of districts. However, the NDE is providing reports and files via the ADVISER Validation website, which provide some of the CRDC school data tables. This information is derived from locked 2023-2024 ADVISER data. Districts may export the CRDC Download File reports in a .csv file format, which the CRDC submission system will accept via their File Upload process. (Please refer to the directions in the ADVISER report descriptions.)

Please note: not all CRDC submission data is covered by ADVISER. Districts will still have to manually provide some data on their own. Additionally, many Student Information System vendors provide a method for exporting your SIS data into a CRDC report or .csv file as well. Multiple files may be uploaded to the CRDC website and the latest file will overwrite any previous file which contained the same data. Districts must “submit” their CRDC data once it has all been entered and validated, at which time the data will be locked.

Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)

Conditional and Alternative Permit Request – Spring 2025

OPENS
10/15/2024
CLOSES
03/29/2025

The purpose of this bulletin item is to provide information on how to request a conditional or alternative permit for teachers who have been hired to start in SPRING 2025 and may not have all their necessary documentation prior to the first day of school with students.

A Conditional Permit allows someone to sign a contract and work as a certified staff member with a location (district) limitation and deficiencies that have not been met to be issued a regular teaching certificate such as a content test. A conditional permit can also be requested for someone who has applied for a local substitute permit and has not completed the human relations training course. 

An Alternative Permit is designed for an applicant to complete a program before applying for a regular certificate while being employed as a contracted teacher. 

Conditional and Alternative Permits can only be requested for employment in a Nebraska school district.  If an applicant has not been a continuous resident of Nebraska for the last five years, fingerprint cards will need to be sent to the certification office before any permits can be issued. Once all deficiencies have been satisfied listed on a conditional permit, a regular certificate/permit will be issued without the need to apply and pay a fee unless the conditional permit has been invalidated by the expiration date. It is important for applicants to pay attention to their expiration date on their certificate. It is their responsibility to follow up on their conditional if it gets close to the expiration date.

A conditional or alternative permit, for those with Spring 2025 teaching positions, can be requested by completing the Google Form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScree7bORXvUvd6DkBJO-_t1Jna3mO97cN2qekOomcXyy2jNA/viewform

More information on a Conditional Permit can be found on our website at https://www.education.ne.gov/tcert/teaching-certificates/teaching-conditional-permit/.

More…Read More › – Conditional and Alternative Permit Request – Spring 2025

Contact Information: Educator Certification (nde.tcertweb@nebraska.gov or 402-471-0739)

2024-2025 ADVISER Calendar And Data Elements Documents Now Available

The ADVISER Resources website has been updated with the 2024-2025 school year data collection calendar, as well as the new ADVISER Data Elements 2024-2025 v9.0 document. Please especially take note of the changes to this Fall’s Follow Up Collection in the 2024-2025 calendar, and also please utilize Appendix A in the Data Elements document to see what has changed year over year.

Reminder – virtual year end ADVISER workdays are ongoing. Details here: https://help.education.ne.gov/knowledge-base/workdays/

Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)