Updates

As the new school year approaches, we encourage you to ask yourself if Secondary Transition training would be helpful for you or your staff. Whether it's a quick refresher or an in-depth professional development opportunity, the ADE/ESS team has various training options available to help meet the unique best practice needs of your school or region.

ADE/ESS has received numerous questions about Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) evaluations. The purpose of this Hot Topic is to help to highlight the differences between evaluations specified in federal and state special education regulations and ESA evaluations outlined in state regulations.

We are happy to share that the SEDD issue documented previously has been resolved, and the SPED exit data is again viewable within the SEDD application.

We are aware of the inability of PEAs (and ESS) to access SPED exit data within the SEDD application. This is due to issues with the application date settings. We're working with our IT team to resolve this issue quickly.

-21002 and Operational Data Store (ODS) Updates

School Finance released this Hot Topic: Update to Statewide ADM Recalculation Date (7/17/2023).

The Important Dates website has been updated to reflect this change in the Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD) for exit data and Discipline Data Collection (DDC) due dates to ensure consistency.

FY 2023 ESS Data Management Year-End Checklist

The attached checklist serves as a reminder to all public education agencies (PEAs).

Note: This guidance is applicable to school districts only.

ESS Data Management is pleased to announce the Preschool Outcomes Technical Assistance Manual. It’s now available in the AzEDS SPED Reporting section of the ESS Data Management website.

The Preschool Transition and Students Without Disabilities data entry components are now open in the Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD):

• Preschool Transition: required for PEAs that provide special education and related services to preschoolers. Data entry involves information on students who transferred from Part C (Arizona Early Intervention Program) to Part B (PEA preschool program).
• Students Without Disabilities (SWOD): data entry is required for PEAs to identify whether or not educational services were provided to SWOD reported as long-term suspended or expelled in AzEDS.

The Arizona Education Data Standards (AzEDS) system will begin collecting an extension of parent information starting in the fiscal year 2024. This additional information is a flag on parent data submitted into AzEDS that identifies the parent as an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) parent.