Review an important memo regarding the reporting of PSD, DD, MD, and MDSSI needs to AzEDS.

All school districts, charter schools, secure care facilities, and the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (ASDB) are required to annually administer the State Performance Plan Indicator 8 Parent Involvement Survey to parents of students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP).

This email updates public education agencies (PEAs) regarding the October 1 Enrollment Data process.

The ADE/ESS Academic Achievement and Inclusive Practices Unit invites all educators to our upcoming free virtual professional learning series on Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

The ADE/ESS Dispute Resolution unit is excited to share details about ESS Facilitated IEP services available in Arizona.

A new integrity rule for FY 2025 has been introduced into the integrity process on SPED data. This new rule is a continuation of our effort to validate SPED reporting further to ensure clean data for the state.  

ESS Program Management is pleased to resume the 2025 webinar and office hours series for IDEA funding.

The ADE/ESS Academic Achievement and Inclusive Practices unit is pleased to announce professional learning opportunities for traumatic brain injury (TBI) featuring Dr. Sue Wolf from Empowerment Research.

The Exceptional Student Services Data Management team is happy to announce an upcoming October 1 Data Collection—Phase III: Non-Reconciliation training. Phase III is only for the PEAs that could not match the number of SPED students submitted in Phase I with the number of SPED students in AzEDS during Phase II. PEAs will receive an email if they qualify for Phase III on January 6th, 2025.

We were unable to finalize the SPED07 report yesterday as planned. AzEDS integrity processing for the evening of December 11 had to be done manually and did not finish until 2:30 pm yesterday. However, this did not affect the October 1 Special Education Reconciliation results.