March 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM - Special Population Committee Meeting

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Call to order at 1:05 PM.

 

Staff:  David Ludwig, Wade Fruhling and Deb Hericks

Discussion:  Nothing new for the Behavioral Health Committee meetings, continue to work on summit this summer.  Chair will share the NESOC (NE Systems of Care).  LB 552 for Children's Connection Program goes to hearing on March 17, 2017. 

Discussion:  Chair and ESU 9 Administrator are working with Special Populations Affiliate Members to develop a retention/recruitment model with Speech/Language Pathologists.  They have run  into a few issues like encryption, etc.  this group will continue to work on model.  Zoom does support Encryption - need to turn on. 

Discussion:  Executive Director and Chair will talk to NDE on March 7, 2017 in regards to what needs to happen to have Circle of Friends under the ESUCC.

Discussion:  Program Director gave an update on SRS/AAP development. 

Discussion:  Srs Procedure Manual approval has been tabled for this month.  Continue to review. 

Discussion:  Recommend approval of SRS Admin fee ($5500) and Tier Fees (5% increase) as presented. ILCD is listed as a Special Project, do we need to keep in MSA for this year and modify next year. 

Discussion:  The PEP Grant has been received but does not include IEP Facilitation training.

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The AAP site has created new Admin Page.  They can now generate new Interim Program School.  They have also added design elements to Student Team and Team’s Student page Added Staging server.  AAP should be operational this month. The remaining items to be addressed are saving problem on page 2 of AAP form. They will update site with newly added Title 1 requirements. There are a handful of minor text changes.

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Project PARA upgraded both the computer and software that runs the program.  This is a procedure that requires quite a bit of planning and testing.  Changes had to be made to the summary reports that use aggregate data as the MYSQL database is using stricter rules regarding queries to the database.  Developing plan for making the site more accessible/easier to use for users:  Process requires a lot of research and analysis of how pages work for different users. From this process, we hope to develop a list of improvements and a timeline for implementing them.  Work as resumed on editing the site to update the code for more security and efficiency.  Content pages and part of the Instructor pages are done.  Project Para advisory board will be held on May 4, 2017. 

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Staff have improved design and usability for Student Team, Case Load, and District Tab pages.  Currently focusing on cleaning up bugs.  There are 20 bugs that have been identified.  Some are very easy, other are fairly challenging.  These should be completed by March 16.  The staff have begun planning phase for connecting to ADVISER.  They will have regular support meeting with Jill Aurand (NDE) and Lyria (Double Line Partners)  Wade created a cheat sheet with all pertinent data:  Special Education data requirements for ADVISER; how data should be coded, list of data that we could pull into SRS (in the future), special rules and considerations.  Data will be transmitted once forms are finalized.  They will no longer have to store data and wait for monthly upload to take place.  They will need to update our current NSSRS reports to display what data has, and has not, been received by the state.  They will need to add a button to allow manual data uploads as needed.  NDE thinks it will be possible to import data into SRS by the 18-19 school year.  Students can be created on SRS using this data, no more double entry for student data.

 

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Discussion:  Get some type of report on discretionary funding for next year. 

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