Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services UPDATES

1. Office of Special Education and Early Intervention ServicesUPDATES October 2011

2. WHAT’S NEW? Notice of Proposed Rule Making • Amend the IDEA Part B regulations • Parental Consent for Medicaid • Comment period ends December 12, 2011 www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-09-29/pdf/2011-22784.pdf Early Childhood Special Education • Early Childhood Updates www.michigan.gov/ecse

3. WHAT’S NEW? Part C Regulations • Published in Federal Register on September 28 • Take effect on October 28 Policy Letter to the Field • OSEP Requirement • Part C Policy letter to field • Parental consent to bill Medicaid • Reference Bulletin was sent September 30

4. WHAT’S COMING? Publications • Guidance documents in Development • Evaluation Procedures • Notice and Consent • Monitoring Standards • Revised Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education – Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR)

5. WHAT’S COMING? Publications • Guidance documents in Development • Surrogate parents and adjudicated youth • Processes and Procedures • Beyond State Board Policy • Policy Changes in School Based Services • Department of Community Healthy • Acknowledgement of the Review of Existing Evaluation (REED) • Previous process required MET review

6. WHAT’S COMING? Monitoring • Fall 2011 Focused Monitoring Cycle • Concludes October 28 • CIMS Workbook - December 15 • Reports of Findings/No Findings • Notification for Indicator B-4B • November

7. WHAT’S COMING? Monitoring • Significant Disproportionality 2010-11 • Fall/Winter on-site visit • Implementation of CEIS Plans/Expenditures

8. WHAT’S COMING? Finance • State Aid • School Bus Inventory System • Guidance Document • Special Education Finance Management web page • MEIS web page • Must Certify Bus Data Annually • New requirement for 2011-2012

9. WHAT’S COMING? Federal • Outstanding IFERs • Past grant years & ARRA • Check your status of submission • IFER4/FER for IDEA ARRA • Due November 29 • ARRA Section 1512 Report • Final Report - Due January 5, 2012

10. WHAT’S COMING? Federal • 2011-12 Flowthrough Applications • Returned - modifications or amendments • Update and Resubmit • Early Childhood and Family Services – ARRA • MUST be obligated by September 30 • Liquidated and reported by November 30.

11. WHAT’S COMING? Medicaid • Are You Waiting for: Medicaid final payment • DCH changes and the process impacted • Communicate with your business office • Next reporting cycle report forms • Release in early November • Due by December 31

12. WHAT’S COMING? Medicaid common errors in desk audits • Transportation Cost Reports • Claiming office supplies • No documentation of one-way trips • Regular Cost Reports • Including cost center “122 costs” • Taking amounts from SE 4096 (line 16) and placing on MAER (line6) • Overstatement of amounts • General accounting

13. WHAT’s COMING? Data Collection • Indicator 4B-Suspension/Expulsion by Race/Ethnicity • Previous Michigan methodology not acceptable to OSEP • New methodology developed and reviewed by OSEP • # of students with IEPs suspended/expelled > 10 days out of school x 2 ÷ total # of students with IEP’s

14. WHAT’S COMING? Methodology Applied: 2009-2010 • # of students with IEPs 224,295 • suspended/expelled > 10 days out of school 3,989 • 3,989 ÷ 224,295=1.8% • 1.8% x 2 = 3.6% Same procedure for 2010-2011 data

15. WHAT’s COMING? New Monitoring Activity • Additional districts identified for 4B for 2009-10 • Significant discrepancy by race/ethnicity • Newly identified only • Desk-audits, on-site visits, or state verified self-reviews

16. WHAT’s COMING? Preschool Early Childhood Data • Preschool Early Childhood Outcomes • Data entered into the MSDS • More data checks will take place this year MI-CIS • Decommissioned in 2012 • CEPI will be Part C ready - Fall 2012

17. UPCOMING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Early Childhood Special Education September webinars are available at http://eotta.ccresa.org Verification for Indicator B-12 (Early Childhood Transition) spreadsheets were due by October 4

18. UPDATES & REMINDERS Have you been in the MI School Data Portal yet? • If you need access contact the D4SS Technical Contact in your ISD Early On 2011 Annual Conference – • November 3 and 4 • Grand Traverse Resort • Registration - www.1800EarlyOn.org

19. From The Director’s Desk

22. From The Director’s Desk ESEA • Inability to reauthorize will negatively impact schools ability to make AYP • Administration developed a process to allow for state flexibility • 100% proficiency by 2019-20 • Close achievement gap by 50% by 2016 • Create a new standard • Intent to apply submitted by 10-12

23. From The Director’s Desk ESEA Continued • Career and College Ready Expectations • Effective Instruction and Leadership • Recognition, Accountability and Support • Reward Schools • Priority Schools • Focus Schools

24. From The Director’s Desk Sen. Harkin’s ESEA bill is now available online at: http://help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ROM117523.pdf warning, it’s over 800 pages

25. From The Director’s Desk We write on behalf of the Education Task Force of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities to express our opposition to provisions of S.1571 that would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to allow states to remove any number of students with disabilities from the general accountability system.

26. From The Director’s Desk Congress has passed the Combating Autism Act and sent it to the president for his signature • This bill amends the Public Health   Service Act to extend and reauthorize appropriations through FY 2014 for programs including: • Developmental disabilities surveillance and research program; • Autism education, early detection, and intervention program; and • the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee

27. From The Director’s Desk Combating Autism Act • The bill also requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit a progress report on: activities related to autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities

28. From The Director’s Desk October - White House State Calls • Michigan American Jobs Act Call • 4 p.m. EDT • Dial-in#: (800) 230-1092

29. From The Director’s Desk Senate Bills • 618 – PSAs; remove geographical boundaries • 619 – Cyber schools, no previous enrollment • 620 – Charters; 51% or parents or staff • 621 –Nonpublic schools; remove “within ISD” • 624 – Schools of Choice; no boundaries • 709 – Homeschools; dual enrollment

30. From The Director’s Desk Paperless Teacher Certificates • Website verification • Operational by January Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace Critical Shortage Legislation

31. From The Director’s Desk NASDSE Professional Development Series • CEN purchased the rights for Michigan • Available via satellite or streaming media -FREE • All access information will be provided to CEN by NASDSE -2 weeks prior • Complete online request form http://www.cenmi.org/NASDSERequestForm.aspx.

32. From The Director’s Desk Fall Conference Schedule: We’re Better Working Together: Recommendations for Improved Coordination Between Title I and the IDEA: Available Online Beginning Wednesday, October 26, 2011 After 1 p.m. ETSection 504 Issues for Students with Disabilities: Case Law and Implications for Practice: Available Online Beginning Wednesday, October 26, 2011 After 1 p.m. ET

33. From The Director’s Desk MSD now submits Special Education child count information into the MSDS staging areas for the resident ISD • The MSD building Primary Education Providing Entity (PEPE) is 02548

34. From The Director’s Desk Documentary - History of America’s Disability Rights Movement • LIVES WORTH LIVING; Independent Lens • Premiers on PBS • Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10 PM www.pbs.org/independentlens/.

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