Special Education

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION INFO: Registration for the 2021 Arizona Education Virtual Job Fair is now open!

  • Wed, Dec 2 2020  •
    • Professional Learning and Sustainability
    • Updates

ADE/ESS is pleased to announce that registration for the Arizona Education Virtual Job Fair is now open! Join us online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Registration is open to Arizona public school districts and charter schools on a first-come, first-served basis.

Post School Outcomes Marketing Materials

PSO Flyer (Fillable with PEA Logo Option)

Frequently Asked Questions from Parents

What is Exceptional Student Services?

ESS is the section of ADE responsible for ensuring that public education agencies in Arizona have special education programs, policies, and procedures that comply with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and its implementing regulations, and that eligible children and youth with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE).

 

Whom do I contact when I have questions or concerns about special education?

There are three ways to seek assistance:

OSEP INFO: Celebrate the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's 45th Anniversary!

  • Tue, Dec 1 2020  •
    • Updates

November 29, 2020, marked the 45th anniversary of President Gerald Ford signing the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142) into law. The 1990 amendment to Public Law 94-142 changed the law’s name to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

INTERNAL PD OPPORTUNITY: December IDEA Conference Sessions Now Available

  • Mon, Nov 30 2020  •
    • Updates

Please join ADE/ESS for these exciting IDEA Conference session offerings

INTERNAL PD OPPORTUNITY: Upcoming Math Webinar—Exploring Integers

  • Mon, Nov 30 2020  •
    • Professional Learning and Sustainability
    • Updates

In this free webinar, we will explore multiple representations to build conceptual understanding of operations with integers. We will apply and extend previous understandings of operations with whole numbers to create zero-sum pairs.  Additionally, we will demonstrate how to develop grit and creative problem-solving with accessible low-floor/high-ceiling tasks.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: New AzEDS Portal Report: SPED99 – SPED Orphan Data Report

  • Tue, Nov 24 2020  •
    • Data Management
    • Updates

The SPED99 – SPED Orphan Data Report is a new report now available in the AzEDS Portal.  This report will aid PEAs in finding special education (SPED) data in AzEDS that may have had the corresponding enrollment data removed.  When enrollment data is deleted for a given student but the SPED data remains in AzEDS, this is defined as orphan data.  Often this orphan data can result in errors for your PEA or other PEAs, that is unseen in your INTEG15 report, since the enrollment data is not present. 

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: SPED07 Report Now Available

  • Tue, Nov 24 2020  •
    • Data Management
    • Updates

The SPED07 report is now available within the October 1 Data Collection (ODC) application for Phase II: Reconciliation. 

Special Populations

 

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: October 1 Verification Count for students attending ASDB sites.

  • Mon, Nov 16 2020  •
    • Data Management
    • Updates

Further clarification is being provided regarding students attending ASDB sites and the ESS October 1 Data Collection. 

 Regardless if a student attends an ASDB site or a site within your PEA, you would include the student in your Phase I Verification Count if the student was provided services on October 1st.