Meeting 1 - 2021-09-07

Materials/Agenda

Participants

First Name	Last Name	Organization
Fuat	Aki	Texas Education Agency
Meghana	Aleti	Wisconsin DPI
Jill	Aurand	Nebraska Department of Education
Megan	Benay	Great Oaks Charter Schools
Sean	Casey	Ed-Fi Alliance
Rohith	Chintamaneni	Arizona Department of Education
Ed	Comer	Student1
Debbie	Dailey	Indiana Department of Education
Terri	Hanson	Texas Education Agency
Aadi	Hirurkar	Arizona Department of Education
Eric	Jansson	Ed-Fi Alliance
Marilyn	Loehr	Minnesota DOE
Rebecca	Nesset	Minnesota DOE
John	Raub	Wisconsin DPI
David	Reeg	Minnesota DOE
Audrey	Shay	Wisconsin DPI
Leanne	Simons	Texas Education Agency
Sayee	Srinivasan	Ed-Fi Alliance
Itzel	Torres	MSDF
Michelle	Tubbs	Indiana Department of Education

Support

Ann Su - Ed-Fi Governance Support

Meeting recording LINK

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The meeting was held on 2021-09-07 11:00 am -11:45 am CT via WebEx

Agenda

Evaluation Data Collection Need (Child Find Collection)
Hear from WI what they learnt from the Survey
Discuss the proposed model
Hear answers to the questions
Discuss the next steps

Meeting Notes

Evaluation Data Collection Need (Child Find Collection)
- SEAs need to collect SPED evaluation data for compliance reasons.
- Collecting evaluation data for eligibility determination for student evaluation is different from collecting program service data
- Initially the thought was around using the SPEDProgramAssciation and creating extensions in there for capturing evaluation data. Hence the Alliance has designed the authorization by
  - Adding 2 new views by including the GeneralStudentProgramAssociation in addition to enrollment views.
  - Authorization for unenrolled students
    - https://edfi.atlassian.net/wiki/display/EFTD/Authorization+for+Unenrolled+Students
- Great Oak Charter
  - Are home school students not assigned to a district still?
  - In some states we work in those students are still attached to the district school which is responsible for provisioning of services
- WI
  - In our case, I believe homeschool students are not connected to a district.
  - Here is a detailed doc explaining WI Home School rules (most driven by legislative rullings) https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/parental-education-options/pdf/home_faq_2021_6.pdf
  - On the Home School pupil count report parents have to submit they must indicate their resident district
- NM
  - Variation of this situation not just special education for pre-school screening
  - Challenge of not having enrollment in the district
  - Need to authorize district for submitting the program similar to WI
  - Program designed based on funding
- IN
  - Does the proposal for the student association cover other program types?
  - The Alliance came to an understanding that the eligibility process could be common across many program services like Title1, FoodService, ELL...