Registration for the 2024–2025 Special Education New Director Symposium (SENDS) is closing soon, so please be sure to register if you are beginning your first or second year as a special education director.

The Defining the Instructional Calendar Chapter has been updated and posted on the School Finance webpage under the School Finance Guidelines & Manuals section. This chapter was revised to remove duplicate guidance referred to in the Reporting Student Membership chapter and remove outdated guidance.

ADE/ESS is excited to announce keynote speakers for Arizona’s 2024 IDEA Conference: Expect, Engage, Achieve.

Reporting Student Membership, formally part of the School Finance Manual, has been updated and posted.

Charter Estimated Counts files are due on 07/01/24. This requirement does not apply to districts as it is specifically for Charter schools.School Finance does NOT pay based on the prior year's ADM in AzEDS for Charters.

The Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD) is open and accessible for your review. The SEDD application displays student data reported to the Arizona Education Data Standards (AzEDS), fitting the module requirements below. Any necessary updates should be made in your Student Information System (SIS) promptly to sync to AzEDS and will reflect in SEDD the following day.

School Finance has posted the BUDG-25 reports for all school districts to the School Finance website. The FY 2024 June BUDG-25 reports have been calculated using the FY 2024 June BSA-55 information.

PHOENIX – State schools chief Tom Horne says the newly-passed state budget includes a change that he has long sought: the elimination of the Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA) program, which many educators consider an unnecessary bureaucratic requirement and a waste of classroom time.

FY2025 Updated Budget Forms Are Expected to be Released June 21st.

FY2025 Fiscal Operations Updates