Listserv News and Updates
What is ListServ (SELs/SELs2)?
February 2000, the Office of Special Education created the Special Education Listserv (SELS). It has been and continues to be a limited e-mail group (with listserv being a misnomer since it really isn’t a listserv) available to only one contact person per school district/responsible public agency. It is used by the Office to disseminate important special education information concerning funding, compliance, data collection, professional development, etc.
The Office has created a second e-mail group called SELs2. This e-mail group is open to anyone wanting to subscribe (principals, teachers, parents, etc.). It will allow subscribers to receive the EXACT same messages as subscribers to SELs. By creating this second e-mail group, all constituents interested in special education will have the opportunity to receive the Office’s e-mail messages, not just one contact per school district/responsible public agency. It also allows DESE to maintain the ability to make sure that every district has at least one contact person per district receiving these messages. Messages are from DESE only and may only be posted by the manager (Lina Browner, Office of Special Education). Members may not post messages to either SELs or SELs2.
How Do I Subscribe?
Those interested in subscribing to SELs2 can do so by going to the following the links below.
Questions or Problems Subscribing to SELs and/or needing to change SELs information, contact Lina Browner, Executive Assistant, Office of Special Education at (573) 751-5739 or via email at Lina.Browner@dese.mo.gov
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SELs Archives
- Stakeholder Engagement Meeting – Focus on Postsecondary Transition
Source: Office of Special Education
Intended Audience: Parents and Educators of Students with Disabilities
Date: October 4, 2024
You are cordially invited to our Office of Special Education Stakeholder Engagement meeting on October 29, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. We are excited to share the new developments our office has made, and is currently making, to improve postsecondary transition practices for students with disabilities. Many of these changes were due to input received during previous stakeholder engagement meetings. At this meeting, we would also like to gain information from you about postsecondary transition planning and how you prefer to receive information concerning special education in the state of Missouri.
Please share the meeting link below with parents, teachers, and other interested stakeholders. Hearing from a variety of stakeholders will assist us in best meeting the needs of Missouri’s students with disabilities.
Join the meeting link
https://stateofmo.webex.com/stateofmo/j.php?MTID=m7f8759fba0700f36e9f1db2b166ef657
We can’t wait to see you!
- FY 2025 Public Placement Fund Application Available
Source: Special Education Finance
Intended Audience: Special Education Directors, District Administrators
Date: October 1, 2024
The FY 2025 Public Placement Fund (PPF) application and manual have been posted on the Special Education Finance webpage at https://dese.mo.gov/financial-admin-services/special-education-finance/special-education-finance-hnf-ppf-and-rbp. The PPF provides reimbursement for educating both IEP and non-IEP students placed within a non-domicile school district by the Children's Division, the Department of Mental Health, the Division of Youth Services, a court of competent jurisdiction, or admittance under a physician’s order. Funding is available when the educational costs of these students exceed the revenues received by the serving district.
The application must be submitted electronically to spedfunding@dese.mo.gov no later than October 31, 2024, for expenditures incurred from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. Only applications in Excel format will be accepted. PDFs of applications will not be accepted. A confirmation of receipt will be sent to districts submitting applications. Please keep the confirmation email for your records. This is an OPTIONAL application. Students must NOT be claimed on both the High Need Fund and PPF applications.
Provided funding is available, upon approval of the application, reimbursement is anticipated to be paid in February or March.
Districts may contact Special Education Finance with questions at 573-522-2523 or Sid.Belt@dese.mo.gov.
- 2025 Transition Training Institute – Facing the Future—Together (SAVE THE DATE!)
Source: Office of Special Education
Intended Audience: Superintendents, Middle and High School Principals, Special Education Directors, General and Special Education Teachers, Counselors, School Psychologists, and Parents
Date: September 30, 2024
The 2025 Transition Training Institute will be held in-person from June 25-27, 2025, at the Holiday Inn Executive Center, Columbia, MO. SAVE THE DATE!
The institute will focus on programs and structures to support students in graduating and moving toward postsecondary goals. There will be a variety of presentations which will focus on compliance, work-based learning, self-advocacy, employment, social/emotional intelligence, and career readiness with an emphasis on students with special needs. Specific enrollment instructions and additional information will be provided later.
If you have questions, please contact Marsha Campe at 573-751-2512 or Marsha.Campe@dese.mo.gov.
- FY24 IDEA Part B Final Expenditure Report (FER) Now Open
Source: Special Education Finance
Intended Audience: Special Education Directors, Financial Administrators, Superintendents
Date: September 20, 2024
The 2023-24 (FY24) IDEA Part B FER is now available for data entry and is due on October 21, 2024. For step-by-step instructions on completing and submitting the 2023-24 IDEA Part B FER, review the FER Guide located at https://dese.mo.gov/media/pdf/part-b-fer-guide.
The FER expenditure data will autofill from the last submitted 2023-24 Annual Secretary of the Board Report (ASBR) into the FER Grid, Maintenance of Effort (MOE) State Grid, MOE County Grid, and MOE Local Grid. All K-12 special education and Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) expenditures must have the correct combination of source codes and project codes. Only expenditures with correct coding in the ASBR will pull into the FER. To ensure correct coding, go into the ASBR, select detail reports from the main menu, and then select Part III B. This will pull a report by function code, object code, source code, and project code. The Special Education Expenditure Coding guidance document is posted at https://dese.mo.gov/financial-admin-services/special-education-finance/fiscal-monitoring for more information regarding special education function, source, and project codes.
Remaining unexpended IDEA Part B 611, ECSE 611, ECSE 619, and proportionate share funds from the FY24 grant may be carried over and expended in 2024-25 (FY25). However, in order for carryover funds to appear in the 2024-25 Part B Budget Application, the LEA must create and submit a 2024-25 Part B Budget Application Revision after approval of the 2023-24 Part B FER.
Please direct any questions to your technical assistance contact as listed below.
County District Codes 001-090 through 045-078:
Lindsay Lay
573-751-0623
County District Codes 054-039 through 077-104, 079-077 through 092-091, and 097-116 through 107-154:
Valerie Hoover
573-751-6904
County District Codes 046-128 through 054-037, 078-013, 093-120 through 096-119, and 107-155 through 115-935:
Laura Robinson
573-751-0622
- Special Education Finance Monthly Webinar – October 1
Source: Special Education Finance
Intended Audience: Special Education Directors, Financial Administrators, ECSE Directors
Date: September 26, 2024
The Special Education Finance Section will be hosting the next monthly webinar on Tuesday, October 1 at 9:00 a.m. Topics will include the Early Childhood Special Education Final Expenditure Report, High Need Fund applications, and Public Placement Fund applications. This webinar will be recorded and available on the Special Education Finance Training web page: https://dese.mo.gov/financial-admin-services/special-education-finance/special-education-finance-training-monthly-webinars.
To attend the monthly fiscal webinar, please go to https://stateofmo.webex.com/stateofmo/j.php?MTID=m2efe456e47a04324b3a8f21649f012b1 or dial 650-479-3207 to join by phone.
Meeting Number: 2632 745 5627
Meeting Password: M3MuchByJ75
These calls are scheduled the first Tuesday of every month at 9:00 a.m. The call-in information will be the same as what is listed above for each call.
If you have any questions, please email the Special Education Finance Section at spedfunding@dese.mo.gov.
- FY24 High Need Fund Application Open – Due October 21, 2024
Source: Special Education Finance
Intended Audience: Special Education Directors, District Administrators
Date: September 20, 2024
The High Need Fund (HNF) application is now open to claim reimbursement for 2023-24 special education services. Districts will access the HNF application in the DESE web applications ePeGS system.
The HNF application is optional and provides reimbursement for districts serving any student with a disability whose educational costs exceed three times the Current Expenditure per ADA amount as calculated on the FY24 Annual Secretary of the Board Report (ASBR). All expenditures reported on the application must be directly related to the student's education and associated with providing direct special education and related services that are identified in the student's Individualized Education Program (IEP).
In order to create an application, districts must ensure the following:
- The person completing the application must have authorized access for ePeGS
- Students have been marked as eligible for High Need in the MOSIS June Student Core File
If the district did not mark students as eligible, the MOSIS June Student Core file will need to be updated and resubmitted prior to completing the HNF application as students automatically populate into the application. In addition, if students need to be added or deleted from the application, this must be done by updating the June Student Core File.
The HNF manual has been posted on the Special Education Finance webpage at https://dese.mo.gov/media/pdf/hnf-manual.
Districts may contact Special Education Finance with questions at 573-522-2523 or Sid.Belt@dese.mo.gov.