Special Education Listserv
Subject: Special Education Child Count Reporting
Source: Mary Corey, Director, Data Coordination
Intended Audience: Special Education administrators, Core Data/MOSIS personnel
Date: November 5, 2008
The December special education child count will be reported via the MOSIS Student Core submission. Special education personnel need to be working with MOSIS personnel to ensure that all students with disabilities are included in the reporting.
A very common question has been whether the attending or resident district should report nonresident students attending a district. While there are many individual situations, the scenarios can be covered by three main rules:
1) Attending district reports the student in the MOSIS Student Core file. This covers the vast majority of students including students attending their resident districts, publicly-placed students, foster children, students in state operated programs (MSB, MSD, and MSSD), high school students from a K-8 district, nonresident students paying full tuition to the attending district, parentally-placed private school students receiving special education services, etc.
2) Resident district reports the student in the MOSIS Student Core file.
The resident district will report students attending another district or program in a limited number of situations including students attending area career centers or vocational schools, students attending alternative schools, IEP students placed in private agencies, and IEP students attending another district through some arrangement (cooperative or other) that does not involve full tuition.
3) Serving district reports ECSE students. This is a change from previous reporting rules. This will align the data reporting with the expenditure reports.
The Student Core File contains three sets of district and school codes:
Attending, Resident, and Reporting. Having multiple district codes will allow us to aggregate the data by either attending or resident district as appropriate.
Additional technical assistance will be available on the Division webpage soon. In addition, an announcement of the MOSIS webinars for the December cycle will be made soon. Special education personnel are encouraged to participate in these webinars along with MOSIS/Core Data personnel.
Questions can be directed to the Special Education Data Coordination Section at 573-526-0299 or email webreplyspedc@dese.mo.gov.