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Special Education Updates Archive
2024
04/05/2024 View HTML Page  Updated Special Education Procedures for PRS, PSM, and OASES.
04/01/2024 View HTML Page  Special Education Policy and Procedure Memo SY 2023-2024 — 3: IDEA Equitable Services Child Count Reporting Requirements.
03/27/2024 View HTML Page  Changes to the IEP Forms Crosswalk
03/27/2024 View HTML Page  Indicator 7 Data Entry/ECOS Database Webinar
03/22/2024 View HTML Page  Notice of Public Comment on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Annual State Application. The deadline for submission of public comment is April 22, 2024.
02/05/2024 View HTML Page  New Federal Competitive Special Education Program Grant Now Available, Fund Code 213: Implementing Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate the Use of Time-Out Rooms. Applications due on or before 20 February 2024.
01/30/2024 View HTML Page  Register for the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB) annual conference: Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) Visions of Collaboration Conference on March 24, 2024.
01/09/2024 View HTML Page  Reminder: Register Now for New IEP Virtual Training of Trainers (TOT)
2023
12/22/2023 View HTML Page  Request for Public Comment on Updated Special Education Procedures
12/11/2023 View HTML Page  IEP Training Invitation
12/08/2023 View HTML Page  Update to FY2024: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B (IDEA) Federal Targeted Special Education Program Improvement Grant Fund Code: 0274
11/13/2023 View HTML Page  Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards to Special Education (also referred to as "Parents Rights")- linked resources have been updated in all languages. Additionally, Polish and Ukrainian versions now available.
11/13/2023 View HTML Page  Update to FY2024: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B (IDEA) Federal Targeted Special Education Program Improvement Grant Fund Code: 0274
10/23/2023 View External Link  FY2024: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B (IDEA) Federal Targeted Special Education Program Improvement Grant Fund Code: 0274- Now available in GEM$
10/23/2023 View HTML Page  FY2024: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B (IDEA) Federal Targeted Special Education Program Improvement Grant Fund Code: 0274
10/13/2023 View HTML Page  Please visit the IEP Improvement webpage! Additional resources related to the updated IEP form and Training of Trainers session have been posted.
10/04/2023 View HTML Page  The Department seeks a vendor to provide teacher preparation and in-service professional development (PD) to increase the number of MA educators licensed as teachers of Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing — American Sign Language/Total Communication.
09/26/2023 View HTML Page  Parent New IEP Form Information Letter template, in sixteen languages, now available for School use
09/15/2023 View HTML Page  The Department is reissuing the former "Draft Process Guide" and repurposing the document to serve as a "Technical Guide." As the name implies, this document will cover the technical changes to the IEP Form. This tool should be considered alongside other
09/12/2023 View HTML Page  IEP 2023 Business Requirements and IEP 2023 Preliminary Data Requirements Analysis update
08/02/2023 View External Link  Draft IEP Process Guide Stakeholder Feedback Survey
07/17/2023 View External Link  Indicators 11, 12, and 13 Data Display Webinar: This webinar is for all LEAs who collected Indicator 11-13 data during the 2021-2022 school year. You can find your LEA Data Display in your district Special Education Performance Plan Dropbox.
06/16/2023 View HTML Page  Special Education Policy Memo SY2023-2024 — 1 Clarification: Conditions of Assistance submission
06/07/2023 View HTML Page  Special Education Policy Memo SY2023-2024 Requirements for the 2023-2024 Conditions of Assistance: IDEA Part B Funding (formerly SEPPS)- policy memo provides forms (Individual District or Regional District) and gives guidance as to their use and submission
05/24/2023 View HTML Page  DESE providing PD and TA for schools and districts to support the adoption of the new IEP forms.
05/15/2023 View HTML Page  Department of Elementary and Secondary Education advises schools and districts in the Commonwealth to continue concerted efforts to reduce or eliminate the use of time-out rooms.
05/02/2023 View HTML Page  Learning Ally Audiobook accounts have access to audiobooks now and over the summer
04/26/2023 View HTML Page  Special Education Update Concerning Master Vendor RFR
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