SEDRA and ACTE-SPED Opening for SFY 2027 on May 1, 2026.

Minnesota Department of Education sent this bulletin at 04/14/2026 09:55 AM CDT
Minnesota Department of Education

Special Education Data Reporting Application (SEDRA) and Access to Career and Technical Education – Special Education (ACTE-SPED) Opening May 1, 2026

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

Specific service code expenditures without errors entered in SEDRA for SFY 2026 as of April 30, 2026, will be copied into the upcoming year on May 1 by 9 a.m. Prior to May 1, 2026, please review your SEDRA lines to ensure only current data rolls into the new year. As of April 01, 2026, 36,900 lines have not been updated since May 2025.

SEDRA expenditures without errors for the 25-26 school year will generate the state and federal cover sheets for SFY 2027. State and federal cover sheets will be made available in the Minnesota Funding Reports (MFR) by 9 a.m. on May 4. This is due to May 1 being on a Friday and SEDRA data is loaded to the mainframe overnight and so data to create the cover sheets is not available until Monday, May 4. 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”: Reimbursable State (FIN 740, 317, 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 “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 school 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 Agencies (LEAs) 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. This will need to be completed by June 1, 2026, for MDE to begin reviewing state SEDRA retained lines for SFY 2027 Eligibility Maintenance of Effort.

MDE prefers that LEAs submit their special education application forms for SFY 2027 electronically. Please email the forms to mde.spedfunding@state.mn.us.

Please note: Copies mailed through the U.S. Postal Service will still be accepted but may cause delays in processing times.

All forms must be received by June 1, 2026.

The SFY 2027 Central Data Collection tile will need to be in Approved status and the Program Assurances signed by the Identified Official with Authority (IOwA) by June 30, 2026, in the Minnesota Education Grants System (MEGS) to be substantially approved.

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