20062007 Student Attendance Accounting Handbook SAAH Updates

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2006-2007 Student Attendance Accounting Handbook
(SAAH) Updates

• Texas Education Agency
• ESC PEIMS Coordinator Training
• August 7, 2006

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SAAH Updates Clarifications

• General Requirements
• Special Education
• Bilingual/ESL
• Prekindergarten
• Pregnancy Related Services
• Non-Traditional Schools

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General Attendance Requirements Clarification

• Residency
• A student can not enroll on the basis of another
  persons residency, including a parent or
  grandparent

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Special Education Updates

• Teacher Requirements
• Core academic subject area teachers providing
  direct instruction must meet the NCLB highly
  qualified teacher requirements.
• Clarification of Coding for Hospital Class and
  Residential Care Treatment Facility (chart on
  next slide)
• Changed PPCD (preschool program for children with
  disabilities) code from 0 to 1
• Heading A student eligible for special education
  AND PK services served in a self-contained
  special education classroom by a special
  education teacher all day (Student in this
  setting receive only special education and
  related services.)

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Hospital Class and Residential Care Treatment
Facility Coding Chart
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Bilingual/ESL

• Addition to Withdrawal Procedure
• A student may be withdrawn from Bilingual/ESL if
  they perform satisfactorily on either the Reading
  or English Language Arts Assessment administered
  in English

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Prekindergarten Eligibility for Military
Dependents (HB1)

• Parent or official guardian is an active duty
  uniformed member of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
  Air Force, or Coast Guard.
• OR
• Parent or official guardian is an
  activated/mobilized uniformed member of the Texas
  National Guard (Army or Air Guard), or
  activated/mobilized member of reserve components
  of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or
  Coast Guard.
• OR

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Prekindergarten Military Eligibility

• Parent or official guardian is a uniformed
  service member who is Missing in Action (MIA)
• OR
• Parent or official guardian is injured or killed
  while serving on active duty as a member of the
  armed forces of the United States, including
  state military forces or a reserve component of
  the armed forces

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PrekindergartenDefinition of Active Duty

• Active duty refers to military members who are
  currently serving full time in their military
  capacity and are assigned to duty stations in
  Texas or who are Texans who have eligible
  children residing in Texas.

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Prekindergarten Military Eligibility Documentation

• Department of Defense (DoD) photo ID
• OR
• A Statement of Service from Installation
  Adjutant General (AG) or Texas National Guard
  office of Adjutant General (TAG)

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Prekindergarten Military Eligibility Documentation

• OR
• Missing in Action (MIA) appropriate documentation
• Copy letter documenting missing status from
  Service Secretary
• Copy of DD (Department of Defense) Form 2811
  Report of Proceedings by Initial/Subsequent
  Board of Inquiry or Further Review Board
• Copy of DD Form 2812, Commanders Preliminary
  Assessment and Recommendations Regarding Missing
  Person

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Prekindergarten Military Eligibility Documentation

• Service appropriate DoD form/copy of death
  certificate indicating death as reason for
  separation from service
• OR
• Copy of Purple Heart orders or citation for
  service members or reservists/guardsmen injured
  or wounded in combat

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Prekindergarten Military Eligibility Documentation

• OR
• Copy of Line of Duty Determination documentation
  for service members or reservists/guardsmen NOT
  wounded or injured in combat but were injured
  while serving on active duty

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Pregnancy Related Services

• The majority of changes were cosmetic and
  designed to make the rules easier to understand.
• Documentation Requirements have been expanded and
  clarified.
• If a student returns to campus for any reason
  before the first day of the 4th week, a Medical
  Release from a medical or nurse practitioner must
  be obtained to permit the return.

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Pregnancy Related Services

• Doctor notes and releases can be obtained from a
  Medical or Nurse Practitioner licensed to
  practice in the US.
• Doctor notes must document that a medical
  necessity for confinement is required in
  accordance with the International Classification
  of Diseases (ICD9 Code).

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Pregnancy Related Services

• PRS and Special Education Services. (SPED) The
  prenatal or postpartum SPED student confined to
  the home or hospital bedside must be served
  collaboratively by SPED and PRS with homebound
  and CEHI according to the charts even when the
  student is anticipated to be confined for less
  than 4 consecutive weeks or less than 4 weeks
  total.

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Non-Traditional Schools Clarifications

• A student must be enrolled for at least 2 hours
  (120 minutes) of daily instruction to be counted
  as on-half day membership and at least 4 hours
  (240 minutes) of daily instruction for full day
  membership
• A student may not be double counted for ADA while
  attending both a regular school program and a
  non-traditional education program

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Non-Traditional Schools

• A student younger than 10 years of age shall be
  removed from class and placed in a DAEP (TEC
  37.008) if the student engages in conduct
  described by TEC 37.007. An elementary student
  may not be placed in a DAEP with any other
  student who is not an elementary student.

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Non-Traditional Schools

• A student enrolled in a JJAEP is reported as if
  the student were enrolled at the students
  assigned campus in the students regularly
  assigned education program, including a special
  education program. Services must be provided to
  enable the student to progress in the general
  curriculum in these 2 instances
• A child with disabilities has been removed for
  more than 10 school days and is subjected to a
  subsequent removal for not more than 10 days at a
  time
• When a child with a disability has been suspended
  or expelled for behavior not a manifestation of
  the childs disability

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New Rules to be Defined

• Optional Flexible School Day
• Feedback is being gathered as part of the process
  to define how this program will be administered.
  An addendum will be published after rules are
  adopted.

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Contact Information

• Belinda Dyer
• Forecasting Fiscal Analysis
• Website http//tea.state.tx.us/school.finance/han
  dbook/index.html
• Email attendan_at_tea.state.tx.us
• Phone [phone]