60 DAY TIMELINE Child Find

1. 60 DAY TIMELINEChild Find INDICATOR 11 April 2008 Special Education Directors Tri-Annual

2. INDICATOR 11 • Percent of children with parental consent to evaluate, who were evaluated within 60 days.

3. OSEP Monitoring Priority • Effective General Supervision Part B/Child Find • Compliance Indicator: Target of 100% established by OSEP • States cannot adjust the target Verified!

4. INDICATOR 11 • Federal Regulation: • 34 CFR 300.301 Initial Evaluation: Requires that the Initial Evaluation be completed within 60-days of receiving signed parent consent. • State Special Education Rules • 6.31.2.10 (D) (1) Initial Evaluation

5. Measurement: • # of children for whom parental consent to evaluate was received. • # determined not eligible whose evaluations were completed with 60 days. • # determined eligible whose evaluations were completed within 60 days. • Account for children included in a but not included in b or c. Indicate the range of days beyond the timeline when the evaluation was completed and any reasons for delay. • Percent = [(b + c) divided by (a)] times 100.

6. Target Not Met • Last year New Mexico did not meet the target of 100% of number of students for whom parental consent was received and whose evaluations were completed within 60 days.

8. 07/08 Target Status • Districts Reporting March 2008 (Meeting Target) • Maxwell • Ft. Sumner • Dora • Grady • Hagerman • Ruidoso • Hobbs • Jemez Mountain • Logan • Pecos • Roswell

9. Capitan Carrizozo Chama Cimarron Corona Des Moines Dulce Floyd Hondo Valley House Jal Lake Arthur Las Vegas City Magdalena Mesa Vista Mosquero Mountainair Penasco Quemado Raton Roy San Jon Santa Rosa Silver Springer Tatum Texico Tularosa Vaughn Zuni Did Not Report Any Evaluations

10. STARS BUSINESS RULE • Required only for INTIAL parental consent and INITIAL evaluation.   • Does not include reevaluations: • students moving into a district are considered reevaluations if they were receiving services at their previous school • Does not apply to initial evaluations for gifted (Child find exception 6.31.2.12 (F) (1))

11. Entering Data Public Folders > eScholar Framework for Cognos - Verify > District/Location Reports > Special Education > Parental Consent - 60 day timeline (SPP11) • Data is submitted via the SPED Events template • Parental Consent date should be entered with an event code of 30. • The Evaluation date should be entered with an event code of 31 • Submit Event records only for Initial Evaluations that happen within the current school year.

12. STARS INDICATOR 11 VERIFICATION PROFILE

14. Fixing the Data • For Events dates, or non-compliance reasons that have not been submitted, just resubmit your events templates with the correct dates or reasons codes (no deletes required) • For incorrect dates, you must request a delete of the specific event from the STARS helpdesk.