The first payment for Fiscal Year 2018 is expected August 1. The first payment for charter districts will be based on Charter Estimated Counts. Please confirm your charter district has submitted the necessary data.

The deadline for Charter Estimated Counts is coming on Friday, July 14th. You can access the application via Common Logon.

Before the payment is processed, your LEA must also have their Calendar submitted. The deadline for LEA Calendar has passed. You can access the application via ADEConnect.

FY 2018 Monthly Payment Processing Schedule

Every month ADE uses student data submitted by LEAs to calculate Average Daily Membership (ADM) to use as a basis for state aid funding. LEAs submit student data to AzEDS and ADM is calculated in the ADM Calculation Engine (ACE). The student data must reside within AzEDS on time to be included in the scheduled Integrity and ACE processing for each month’s payment.

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AzEDS Processing Schedule

Please note that regardless of the monthly payment processing schedule, current year integrity will run at least five days per week. Integrity is scheduled every weeknight and will at least include data submitted to AzEDS up until 5 p.m. ACE is scheduled to run immediately after Integrity each run.

First Payments for Fiscal Year 2018

The first two payments of the year will not be calculated using AzEDS ACE results. The August 1, 2017 and September 1, 2017 payments will be based on Charter Estimated Counts for charter districts and FY 2017 ACE results for school districts.

FY 2018 Year End Recalculation Schedule

Please see the School Finance Memo 17-055 for details.

Please see the School Finance Memo 17-053 for details.

There were revisions to EX-1, the guideline defining excused absences, in 2016. The revisions created unintended consequences, including insufficient time for LEAs to implement necessary changes in their Student Information Systems. From September of 2016, ADE has been reviewing EX-1 in order to reissue it allowing sufficient time to implement technological changes.

ADE staff members have met with representatives from school districts and charter schools to gain an understanding of LEAs’ concerns regarding EX-1. Taking concerns into account, EX-1 will be reissued for FY 2019. The new draft is intended to that lessen the administrative burden on LEAs while continuing to serve Arizona’s students.

From now until 6/30/2018, the Superintendent intends to hold LEAs harmless in their implementation of EX-1. This means LEAs will not have monetary audit findings for FY 2017 or FY 2018 in regards to EX-1.

For FY 2017 and FY 2018, it is a local decision whether the 10% threshold in EX-1 is applied to all absences or only out of school suspensions. The FY 2016 revisions of EX-1 are currently suspended. Please find the 2009 version of EX-1 on the School Finance External Guidance webpage. The revised version for FY 2019 will be posted on the same page shortly.