The December 1st Child Count
11/2/2009

TO:             All Special Education Teachers and SERCs
FROM:       Marcy Doud, Middle Grades Special Education Supervisor

The December 1st Child Count is upon us!!  Students in special education must have three things to be eligible or “counted” on the unduplicated child count: a current evaluation, current IEP, and receiving services on or before December 1, 2009.

It is important that the child count is as accurate as possible!  As we merge Easy IEP reports with Campus, we are noticing that some students may not be counted.  Students with disabilities who are new to SPPS or returning with an expired IEP are not currently showing up on the Campus Unduplicated Child Count Reports, nor are they showing up in Campus as students with IEPs.  This is because their new IEP is created in Easy IEP and the systems do not yet talk to each other to create a special education “flag”.  Complicating this issue, the new web-based Placement system does not identify students as needing special education.  We are currently working on all of these issues and hope to have them fixed soon; however, we need your help to make sure we are identifying students and receiving funding for them.  

The building SERC will be connecting with you to verify the unduplicated child count and the SERCs will be reporting corrections back to Patti Romine.  Thank you in advance for your time toward this important task.