Maintaining program integrity and avoiding overclaims by Susan Petersen, Consultant, Nutrition Services from the Spring 1997 issue of Child Caring; updated 2002 Participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) provides many benefits to child and adult care centers, child care home providers and day care home sponsoring...

Program Director Strong leadership is essential for a successful afterschool program. After your planning committee has developed a vision for the program, the focus will shift to program leadership. It is important to put together a team to oversee the leadership of the program. This team, typically called a Management...

What's new in CACFP Materials Order Request Blue & White Forms, And Justice for All Posters, Other Materials CACFP now has a new order form for Blue & White meal count sheets, And Justice for All Posters, and Other Materials. Order Form   FDA Public Health Advisory: Powdered Infant Formula...

Definitions Sexual misconduct means engaging in grooming, sexual contact, or sexual penetration with a student, regardless of the student’s age, as further defined herein. Sexual misconduct may or may not constitute a criminal offense. However, sexual misconduct that occurs between an adult school employee and a student in all cases...

Bullying Flowchart What do I do when my student is a victim of bullying? The first step is to talk to the student and document available evidence to learn about the situation. Next, you will want to find your school's bullying policy and use that as a guide to learn...

OSEP InformationOSERS - Recently Released Early Childhood Documents OSERS released two early childhood-related documents recently. The first was a joint policy document with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families reaffirming the departments’ support of the inclusion of children with disabilities in high-quality early childhood...

Office of Special Education - Our Purpose To lead the improvement of outcomes for preparing all children and students with disabilities and their families for learning, earning, and living through effective use of data, collaboration, communication, and a framework of differentiated support. 2024 IDEA Part B & Part C Federal...

The Early Childhood Interagency Coordinating Council (ECICC) was established by Nebraska Revised Statutes (Neb.Rev.Stat.) 43-3401 to 43-3403 to advise and assist collaborating agencies in carrying out the provisions of state and federal statutes pertaining to early childhood care and education initiatives under state supervision. This is a virtual meeting of...

Free meals will be available to all children attending programs this summer at sites across Nebraska. Meals will be available through the Summer Food Service Program for Children, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program. The attached 2020 Summer Food Program Sites list shows the sponsors, dates, and times that...

NDE’s Five Investment Priorities After extensive feedback from stakeholders and reviewing preliminary data from the 2020-21 school year, the NDE developed the following five priority areas for statewide investments. Access to Comprehensive Mental Health Services Reimagined Family and Community Engagement High-Quality Professional Learning and Bolstering the Teacher Pipeline Focus on...

TransACT ParentNotices - Click to learn more about ParentNotices by watching a short informational video. You can also browse the selection of parent notices. If you don’t already have an account, you can sign up for one here, or email anne.hubbell@nebraska.gov to get started. The Nebraska Department of Education has...

The objective of a fiscal monitoring review is to determine whether a subrecipient of federal grant funds is complying with applicable federal statutes, regulations, and with grant requirements; including the uniform administrative requirements and cost principles for federal awards given in 2 C.F.R. § 200. The reviews focus on the...

Free meals are available to all children age one to eighteen at specific sites across Nebraska. Meals are available to children through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), a U.S. Department of Agriculture program. The following 2021 Summer Food Program Sites list shows the sponsors, dates, and times that meals...

On November 18, 2015, Governor Ricketts signed Rule 11: Regulations for the Approval of Prekindergarten Programs established by School Boards or Educational Service Units and for the Issuance of Early Childhood Education Grants. The newly revised Rule 11 became effective November 23, 2015.  NDE will NOT send an additional early...

IDEA Application Process If you are new to the Grant Management System (GMS) and the IDEA Application Process, the video "IDEA Application Process" is a short tutorial on accessing the GMS system and the steps to apply for the IDEA Grant. Even if you are not new to the process...