001So, good afternoon. Thank you all for joining us for our tea lea special education webinar this afternoon. We've got two people to join us. Um, one of the agenda items is missing off the agenda. So, that's on me. You'll get an update and agenda, but we do have Donna Holmes who's going to talk about data submission for SP. And then we have Laura Brionis who's going to give us an update on legal framework. So, um, when this goes out and the recording is posted, share with your friends that legal framework was talked about today in case they didn't show up not knowing that legal framework is going to be discussed today. So, um, but with that, I'm going to turn it over. Oh, and just another reminder, remember, we don't have chat features, but we
002do have a Q&A feature. So, if there's questions that you have for either Donna or Laura about today's information, please put those in the Q&A because I will send them individually to Donna and Laura. if they require an answer, you might get an answer, but sometimes it's just helping us when with further um guidance and clarification on any of the topics that are presented during our webinar. So, we appreciate when you do add a question. So, Donna, I'm going to turn it over to you. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. Have a couple of announcements uh this afternoon. Uh the first one uh is about our state performance plan indicator reports that are now available online. you can uh access and download those and they'll either be at the local education agency level, regional or
003statewide reports and those are on our uh SP public report generator web page. And as a reminder, uh these provide detailed overviews of key federal performance and compliance indicators that are related to special education in Texas. And they cover such uh areas as graduation rates, dropout rates, math and reading participation and proficiency, uh suspension and expulsion data, our child find data, and effective transitions. And these can be used to offer insights into the performance of students with uh individualized education programs. and they can highlight areas of progress or areas that might need improvement against the targets that are set for both the federal government and uh TEA uh that are set with advisement from our stakeholder groups. We also uh want to remind you that beginning with this um federal fiscal year 2023, these uh
004indicator reports um providing unmasked uh data or were added to uh the accountability application in the Texas Education Agency login or TEL application. Um uh the ones that are publicly posted, those are masked. Uh the numbers uh if they fall below a certain uh number uh to protect students uh confidentiality, those would be masked. But the uh district's um uh reports are available within TIL that has the unmasked uh data. But since these are unmasked, they're only um available to approved users and uh they uh should be treated as confidential. And if you have any questions about these reports, uh you can uh email those to our SP mailbox at spa.t texas.gov. And we'd also like to announce that the SP14 postchool outcome survey is now available on the SP14 web page. Uh it is
005the survey that was conducted in the summer of 2024 and it was uh surveying students that graduated uh on the in the 22 23 school year. Uh if you would like to uh find some um additional uh resources that helps you understand the survey, those are on the Texas bed support website. Uh they have some videos that uh provide a bit of an overview. And if you have any other questions, there is a transition specialist at uh each of the region centers. And our last announcement today has to do with our new special education data submission in TSDS and beginning in school year 2526. Uh the TSDS system will include the special education data uh system submission and we'll be calling it the Spence submission. Uh and it's going to encompass the state performance plan
006indicator seven which is preschool outcomes, indicator 11 which is our timely initial evaluation or child find uh indicator 12 which is early childhood transition and indicator 13 our secondary transition. All four of these will be in uh rolled into that one collection and it aims to enhance our data quality by integrating the various indicators into one single collection and streamlining that data submission process. Uh as you know currently uh indicators 11 and 12 are collected in the TSDS child fine collection while seven and 13 have been collected and are through this year collected in our pill application. But like I said starting in school year 2526 all four of those will be rolled into the beds uh collection in TSDS. Uh we're going to be providing additional information and guidance for these collections coming up.
007So please stay tuned uh for any communications uh and to make sure you've got the the latest updates and instructions. You can uh subscribe to our special education newsletter that uh will be including some updates and links to uh resources in addition to staying tuned to our um uh posted agendas for our upcoming uh webinars. And with that, that's all I have for today. Thank you, Donna. I appreciate it. I love a little reminder to sign up and register for the newsletter because we do send quite a bit of information through the newsletters um where you got the link for this particular webinar. The newsletters are housed right there. So both of these are easily accessible pieces of information are webinars and our newsletters. So thank you Donna. Okay Laura, thank you for joining us
008even though I forgot to put you on the agenda but give us some legal framework updates friend. It's all good. Hello. Good afternoon. Uh I just wanted to make a brief announcement or an update um to on uh the legal framework regarding the submission of um board policies and operating procedures. There was some communication that went out to the ESC's earlier this week and they should have um gone ahead and sent that email out to all the eleas. So if you've not seen that um please check your email because it should be in your email box uh regarding all this communication. But um just some historical background uh for many years TEA has required ELEAs to um uh upload their individual board policies and their operating procedures uh that are aligned with frameworks on the
009legal framework. Uh this year there were extensive uh updates and changes to the administrative code and so as a result um TEA pushed the deadline back for those revisions and that upload to the legal framework. um just in in an effort to give everybody time to make those revisions. Uh the deadline originally was uh the end of January, then it became March, and then it was postponed through the summer indefinitely. So, I just wanted to give an update. Um we have discussed at great length with ESC18 who administers the legal framework and we have um we're trying to work through streamlining the process to make it easier uh for eleas to make those revisions and keep those updated and uh submit and uh for compliance of the annual requirements. Um that process in order for
010us to streamline is going to take us a little bit. And so for this next year, for the 25 26 school year, um eleas's are not required to submit their board policies or their operating procedures to the legal framework. So again, I'm going to say that again. Um this year there was not a requirement to submit the board policies or the operating procedures to the legal framework. And moving forward for the 2526 school year, there's also not a a requirement. Uh now that is not to say that um eleas don't need to have uh updated and revised operating procedures and um uh their board policies. Those need to be maintained uh and kept current at the local level. If an LEA is scheduled for cyclical or targeted monitoring for the 2526 school year, then the
011TEA monitor will contact that LEA directly to get those um those documents. But there's not a requirement to submit it to the legal framework. So again, just want to reiterate there is a requirement still to have them revised and to have them available upon request both for tea or the community stakeholders. Um but there's not a requirement for this next school year to upload to the legal framework. With that said, um we will have communication about the annual assurances that are also uh um submitted to the legal framework that will be coming out soon. Um so be looking for that. But right now there's not a requirement to complete the asurances um at this particular moment, but we'll have more communication coming soon and there's not a requirement to upload, but there is still a
012requirement to make sure that they are updated and maintained at the local level. That's all I have. Awesome. Thank you, Laura. And I know that when you had spoke with the ESC directors, they were asking a few questions on behalf of the LEAs. Um, so it might be good to kind of um talk about some of them here so we have it documented for the ELEAs. But I know one of the questions was if there's policies that are already on the legal framework that are updated, do they do anything? No, they can just leave them there. They don't have to clean any out anything out. Um, and what was another question? Was that the only one? I know there was that was that was one of the main questions and I will say so there
013was a question about what if um they were your maybe the operating procedures were um were submitted previously but they are now not current. Um and so we're actually but there's not again there's not a requirement to go in and change that in the legal framework side. We're probably going to put something on the legal framework though as a disclaimer that says um if parents go in there looking for you you know your uh a specific LEA's operating procedures, we'll probably put something on there about making sure they contact LEA directly because that's going to be the most current version for right now. But there is not a there's nothing to do if you've already submitted them. Um that's okay. They're not going anywhere. We're going to keep them there. Uh but there's not a
014requirement to do an additional submission at this point. Perfect. Yeah, I do remember that question being asked. So, I'm glad we clarified it and got that information out there. So, well, thank you so much. I appreciate everyone's attendance this afternoon. We didn't have too much, but the website will be updated with um the agenda from updated that has the legal framework information. That way, people will know that this recording has both topics on it. So, we appreciate it. So, thank you all. Thank you ladies for joining me and thank you everyone out across the state. Have a good afternoon. Bye- bye.