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Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS)

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• K - 12 (especially students in K – 3)
• Students are not currently identified as needing special education or related services, but who need additional academic and behavioral supports, to succeed in a general education environment.

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Two Types of CEIS

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• Required (CCEIS)

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• Voluntary (CEIS)

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CCEIS - Required

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LEA must use 15% of the IDEA-B, 611 and 619 funds, allowable for comprehensive CEIS for children in the LEA, particularly, but not exclusively, for children in those LEAs, that were found to have significant disproportionality.

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If identified under 300.646, expect additional monitoring and reporting, including public reporting.

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CEIS - Voluntary

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LEAs may use up to 15% of IDEA, Part B funds to develop, and to provide CEIS. These funds may not be used for special education.

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Eligible CEIS Activities

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Professional development, for teachers and other school staff, to enable such personnel to deliver scientifically based, academic, and behavioral interventions.

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Eligible Use of CEIS Funds

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Behavioral and educational evaluations, to determine the supports that are needed by students, to succeed in a general education environment.

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Eligible Use of CEIS Funds (cont.)

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RTII, Tier 2, and Tier 3 - services to nondisabled students in need of additional academic or behavioral support.

These funds must supplement, not supplant, other funds used to implement RTII.

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Maintenance of Effort (MoE)

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The amount of local, or State and local, funds expended for the education of children with disabilities.

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LEA MoE Requirement

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With certain exceptions, funds provided to an LEA under Part B, must not be used to reduce the level of expenditures for the education of children with disabilities, below the level of those expenditures, for the preceding fiscal year. 34 CFR § 300.203(a)

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MoE Exceptions

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An LEA may reduce the level of its expenditures (local, or State and local; in total, or per capita) below the level of those expenditures (local, or State and local; in total, or per capita) for the preceding fiscal year under certain circumstances. 34 CFR § 300.204

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Examples of MoE Exceptions

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• Voluntary departure, by retirement or otherwise, or departure for just cause, of special education or related services personnel.
• Decrease in the enrollment of children with disabilities.
• Termination of costly expenditures for long-term purchases, such as the acquisition of equipment.

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Examples of MoE Exceptions (cont.)

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Termination of an exceptionally, costly obligation to a particular student, with a disability, because the student:

• Has left the jurisdiction.
• Has reached the age at which the obligation to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to the child is terminated, or
• No longer needs the program of special education.

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LEA MoE Requirement

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Funds under IDEA - B must be used to supplement State, local, and Federal funds, and not to supplant them. 34 CFR § 300.202(a)(3)