Below are the key dates and deadlines that your LEA should know about in order to prepare for a successful start of school with OSSE. If you haven’t already, we recommend that you first take a look at the 2019-20 Start of School Checklist for LEA Leaders.
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Type |
Date |
Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Training | April 29 | Early Access Applications | Training on LEA responsibility for administering the OSSE Home Language Survey to all newly enrolling students. Register |
| Release | April 29 | Duplicative Enrollment | Publication of the Duplicative Enrollment Policy. |
| Training | April 30 | Early Access Applications | Training on federally-required LEA responsibilities for screening and placement of English learners. Register |
| Training | May 1 | Early Access Applications | Training on features of program models for serving English learners effectively. Register |
| Deadline | May 3 | Data | Create summer 2019 extended school year (ESY) calendar in eSchoolPLUS. |
| Training | May 15 | Early Access Applications | A refresher and overview of the Early Access to Students with Disabilities Data Application will be provided during the monthly one-hour webinar for all LEA Special Education Points of Contact (LEA SE POCs). Register |
| Deadline | May 31 | Transportation | Submit calendar information in the new Transportation Online Tool for Education (TOTE 2.0) for each school under your LEA with transportation-eligible students. |
| Deadline | June 3 | Transportation | Submit Transportation Request Forms (TRFs) for eligible returning students, including students attending non-public schools in TOTE 2.0. |
| Training | June 6 | Data | All new LEA Data Managers should attend orientation; session will cover expectations, data collection, data systems, and processes. Register |
| Deadline | June 10 | Data | Complete LEA Data Mapping (LDM) tool. |
| Training | June 11 | Start of School Readiness | Register for and attend the 2019 Start of School Summit to hear important updates, learn about policy changes that impact the start of school, and receive critical trainings on topics like data, the enrollment audit, serving English learners and students with disabilities, and transportation. |
| Deadline | June 14 | Data | Create 2019-20 school year calendars in eSchoolPLUS. |
| Deadline | June 14 | Funding - Federal | Submit Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) elections for the National School Lunch Program |
| Training | July 19 | Nutrition | Attend one of the federally-required annual National School Lunch Program trainings. Register |
| Release | July 31 | Early Access Applications | Check English Learner (EL) Qlik application for release of the 2018-19 school year ACCESS scores. |
| Training | Aug. 1 | Data | Orientation for new LEA Data Managers; session will cover expectations, data collection, data systems, and processes. Register |
| Training | Aug. 1 | Data | Orientation of LEA Feed Management; session will allow LEAs to view the status of the daily enrollment, demographics, contacts, attendance and adult program data feeds from the LEA student information system (SIS) to OSSE and assist LEAs in troubleshooting problems with the feeds. Register |
| Release | Aug. 1 | Duplicative Enrollment | Publication of the 2019-20 Duplicative Enrollment Application Technical Guide. |
| Training | Aug. 2 | Nutrition | Attend one of the federally-required annual National School Lunch Program trainings. Register |
| Training | Aug. 5 | Duplicative Enrollment | Attend training on the new Duplicative Enrollment application. Register |
| Training | Aug. 5 | Start of School Readiness |
Attend the 2019 Start of School Makeup Summit for an abbreviated version of the June 11 Summit content geared toward new LEA POCs. Trainings will include important updates, learn about policy changes that impact the start of school, and receive critical trainings on topics like data, the enrollment audit, serving English learners and students with disabilities, and transportation. Registration will launch in late June 2019. |
| Training | Aug. 6 | Duplicative Enrollment | Attend training on the new Duplicative Enrollment application. Register |
| Training | Aug. 8 | Duplicative Enrollment | Attend training on the new Duplicative Enrollment application. Register |
| Training | Aug. 13 | Data | Orientation to LEA Feed Management; session will allow LEAs to view the status of the daily enrollment, demographics, contacts, attendance and adult program data feeds from the LEA SIS to OSSE and assist LEAs in troubleshooting problems with the feeds. Register |
| Training | Aug. 30 | Funding - Federal | Complete the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) application. |
| Release | Sept. 9 | Duplicative Enrollment | 2019-20 Duplicative Enrollment Application |