Special Education Listserv

Subject: Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) Expenditure Reports

Source: Linda Sneller, Director, Funds Management

Intended Audience: Special Education and ECSE Directors, and Finance Administrators

Date: October 18, 2006

The 2005-2006 ECSE Expenditure Reports are still unavailable at this time awaiting completion of programming issues. Due to the delay and shortened timeframe for school districts to complete the Expenditure Report in time for a November 2006 school payment, DESE has again made the decision to make an estimated payment based on school district's ASBR Expenditure Codes "1280" and "2559." This second payment will be approximately 1/9 of your total ECSE expenditures. Future payments will be adjusted accordingly when the Expenditure Reports can be completed and approved.

A Special Education Listserve (SELS) message will be sent as soon as the Expenditure Reports have been initialized. At that time a revised due date will be determined.

In the meantime you may access the information posted on our website at http://dese.mo.gov/divspeced/Finance/ecseindex.html concerning the completion of your ECSE expenditure report. It is extremely important to use the codes listed on the ECSE Core Data Personnel Detail Worksheet when entering ECSE staff into core data in order to generate a correct ECSE payment.

Questions may be directed to the Funds Management Section by e-mail to: webreplyspefm@dese.mo.gov or by telephone: 573-751-0622.