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As of Jan. 1, educators will be required by state regulation to meet one of the two options below to add an English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) endorsement to a license. Educators will qualify for waivers as they complete course requirements for either option.
KSDE’s Special Education and Title Services (SETS) is requesting anyone directly involved with their building or district’s English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)/Title III program to complete a needs assessment survey by Jan. 17. Click here to complete the survey.
Respondents include but are not limited to ESOL teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, instructional coaches, directors, principals, superintendents, etc.
The Clean Bus Planning Awards (CBPA) program is open and accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Funded by the Joint Office of Energy & Transportation and managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), CBPA recipients receive free technical assistance for comprehensive and customized school bus electrification transition plans. Fleets eligible for EPA Clean School Bus program funding are generally eligible to receive CBPA assistance.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) currently has a school bus award opportunity open to districts that own and operate their own transportation fleets.
The Perkins Principles have been developed to support districts as they develop new Perkins consortiums. This document is available also on the Perkins Federal Accountability webpage.
These principles were covered during the Perkins question-and-answer session held in November.
The Educator Data Collection System (EDCS) will open for submission of the Licensed Personnel Report (LPR) on Jan. 1. Districts will have until March 1 to submit their LPR data.
While districts have had access to enter data since Aug. 1, they will now be able to submit that data beginning Jan. 1.
Student data is collected annually for students and youth experiencing homelessness per the McKinney-Vento definition: students and youth lacking fixed, regular or adequate housing. Every fall, a summary document in which the numbers of identified students experiencing homelessness from the previous school year is placed on KSDE’s McKinney-Vento webpage.
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