Special Education Update

Thank you for submitting your APN forms! The APN was published in the Leader Times on Saturday 8/31. We are waiting on Board approval from one district in Indiana County, so the APN will be published in the Indiana Gazette as soon as it is received.

It is required that each school district and charter school send participants to this training. Because the training is highlighting the fiscal program data verifications associated with the IDEA-B fiscal reporting requirements, it is strongly recommended that the participants attending this training are the special education director and business administrator.

There will be no required in-person training sessions during this school year. Instead, the mandatory training will be available on Schoology, accessible from September 16 through October 13, 2024. Live optional office hours will also be scheduled within the course, and dates will be provided there for your convenience. Registration and session information is available at https://www.pattan.net/events/.

Act 16 of 2000 (24 PS §13-1372(8)) requires the Reporting of Expenditures Relating to Exceptional Students. School districts and charter schools must report the number of students with disabilities for which expenditures fall in one of five categories. The categories will be 1A, 1B, 2, 3A, and 3B for the 2023-2024 school year. The dollar amounts for these categories is listed below.

This report will now be collected at the student level through PIMS using the Student Fact Template for Special Education Act 16 Funds. The template will be collected during Collection #1 (opening October 1 and closing with a deadline of October 11, 2024). Data is to be based on expenditures incurred during the entire 2023-2024 school year.