Special Education Data Reporting Application (SEDRA) Opening May 1, 2023

department of education

April 1, 2023

Special Education Data Reporting Application (SEDRA) Opening May 1, 2023

To: Directors of Special Education, SEDRA Contacts, and Business Managers
From: Division of School Finance

SEDRA and Access to Career and Technical Education – Special Education (ACTE-SPED) will be opening for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2024 on May 1, 2023.

Specific service code expenditures without errors entered in SEDRA for SFY 2023 as of April 30, 2023, will be copied into the upcoming year on May 1, by 9 a.m., which will make available the state and federal cover sheets for SFY 2024. Each line will be renumbered for the new fiscal year and will have an error message “Initial Data – Has Not Been Retained or Changed.”

The following Funding Source Codes (FSC) are copied from the current year to the upcoming school year:

  • FSC A: State Special Education Aid – Regular Year (Uniform Financial Accounting and Reporting Standards (UFARS) Finance Dimension (FIN) 740, 317, 335)
  • FSC E: State Special Education Aid – Extended School Year (FIN 740)
  • FSC B: Section 611 Federal Flow Through (ages 3-21) (FIN 419)
  • FSC F: Section 619 Federal Preschool Incentive (ages 3-5) (FIN 420)
  • FSC G: Federal Low Incidence Discretionary (Regional) (FIN 421)
  • FSC H: Federal Part C Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities (ages 0-2) (FIN 422)
  • FSC R: Local Collaborative Time Study (LCTS) (FIN 799)
  • FSC W: Federal Regional Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD)-Discretionary Projects (ages 3-21) (FIN 432)
  • FSC “a”: Unreimbursable State (FIN 740,317, 320, 335)
  • FSC “h”: Part C Regional Interagency Early Intervention Committee (IEIC) (ages birth-2) (FIN 423)
  • FSC “i”: Third Party Expenditures ESY (FIN 372)
  • FSC “j”: Third Party Expenditures RSY (FIN 372)
    FSC “p”: Section 619 Regional Centers of Excellence Discretionary CSPD (ages 3-5) (FIN 430)
  • FSC “x”: Part C Regional Centers of Excellence CSPD Grant (ages birth-2) (FIN 446)
  • FSC “z”: Mandatory Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS)

The following SEDRA Service Codes (SRV) will be copied from the current year into the upcoming school year:

  • SRV A: Payroll Personnel (includes expenditure data)
  • SRV B: Contracted Personnel/Agency Service for pupils (no expenditure data)

The Following ACTE-SPED Service Codes will be copied from the current year into the upcoming schools year:

  • SRV A: Payroll Personnel (includes expenditure data)
  • SRV L: Fringe Benefits (includes expenditure data)
  • SRV U: Purchase of Services (includes expenditure data)
  • SRV “p”: Purchase of Contracted Services (no expenditure data)

This data serves as the local educational agency's (LEA's) proposed budget for the upcoming year. LEA staff will need to call up each line in SEDRA and either save, update, or delete the line in order to remove the error message. Please complete this by June 1, 2023, as MDE will begin reviewing state SEDRA retained lines for SFY 2024 Eligibility Maintenance of Effort.

The Statement of Assurances is now available on the MDE website. You may send the form now or wait and send all of the forms together starting May 1.

MDE prefers LEAs to submit their special education application forms for SFY 2024 electronically. Please email the forms to mde.spedfunding@state.mn.us. Please note, mailed copies will also be accepted. If you choose to submit electronically your state and federal cover sheets along with the statement of assurances, please do not mail a hard copy as duplicates could delay processing times. All forms must be received by June 1, 2023.

SFY 2024 Grant Applications are posted in the State Educational Record View and Submission (SERVS) Financial under Grants Management and need to be in “Under Process” status by July 1, 2023, to be substantially approved.

If you have questions, please contact the Special Education Funding and Data Team.