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June 26, 2026
Thank you for your participation in the June 5 Morning Forum and Afternoon Breakout Sessions. We want to share a few important follow‑up items with you.
First, we want to acknowledge a delay in sharing the recording of the June 5 forum. We appreciate your patience, and we will distribute the recording as soon as it becomes available.
In the meantime, you may access the PowerPoint slide deck that was shared during the morning forum to review the information.
We also encourage all attendees to complete the evaluations for both the morning forum and the afternoon breakout sessions. Your feedback is essential in helping us plan future events.
For those who attended the forum and/or the breakout sessions on June 5, please remember that completing the evaluations is required to receive CEUs.
If you have any questions, please contact us at mde.special-ed@state.mn.us.
Mark Your Calendars for the 2026-27 Special Education Directors' Forums!
Registration information, webinar links, and an agenda will be sent out closer to each forum date.
- August 14, 2026 (hybrid, including in-person afternoon breakout sessions)
- October 9, 2026 (hybrid, including in-person afternoon breakout sessions)
- December 11, 2026 (virtual)
- February 12, 2027 (virtual)
- April 2027 (prerecorded)
- June 4, 2027 (hybrid, including in-person afternoon breakout sessions)
The Minnesota Department of Human Services has successfully identified and resolved system errors that were previously causing IEP claims to be incorrectly denied. School districts do not need to take any action or resubmit claims, as we have automatically reprocessed the impacted claims.
- Error Code N290 for dates of service between October 1, 2025, and February 27, 2026: Reprocessed claims appeared on your May 5, 2026, warrant.
- Error Code MA92 for dates of service from October 1, 2025, through May 6, 2026: Reprocessed claims appeared on your June 2, 2026, warrant.
- Error Code N30 covers dates of service between October 1, 2025, and June 9, 2026: Payments will appear on your June 16, 2026, warrant.
Call the Minnesota Health Care Programs Provider Resource Center at 651-431-2700 or 800-366-5411, or via TTY at 711 or 800-627-3529 with questions about this message.
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has ended its contract with Level Data, the vendor for the Stepwell Minnesota software and website, effective June 30, 2026. This was a difficult decision. MDE recognizes the significant learning curve and troubleshooting districts experienced during the onboarding process; however, it became clear that Stepwell Minnesota could not adequately support MDE’s general supervision responsibilities, and the system ultimately required more time from districts than anticipated at the start of the project.
You may have already seen early steps in the transition away from Stepwell Minnesota. Moving forward, MDE will use existing tools, including SharePoint, to fulfill the state’s data collection responsibilities. These updated processes will remain in place until further notice.
Stepwell Minnesota will remain available to districts until June 30, 2026. MDE strongly encourages all districts to log in and download any documentation or files needed before that date.
If you have questions about Stepwell Minnesota, the transition to new data collection processes, or if you encounter difficulties retrieving files, please email mde.special-ed@state.mn.us for assistance.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has launched CareerForce.MN.gov as the state’s new online labor exchange, replacing MinnesotaWorks.net. The new platform is mobile-friendly, easier to navigate, and offers expanded tools for both job seekers and employers. These updates provide accessible, user-friendly resources to support secondary transition activities, including career exploration, labor market research, work-based learning coordination, and planning related to competitive integrated employment.
Why the Change?
This transition follows two years of planning, stakeholder feedback, and training, supported by a 2023 legislative appropriation for DEED’s digital transformation efforts. Ongoing site enhancements are planned.
Benefits of using CareerForce.MN.gov for those looking for work:
Benefits for employers who post their open positions on the Post-a-Job platform so they show up on CareerForce.MN.gov:
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Post Minnesota jobs with no fee to post.
- Reach thousands of Minnesota job seekers; CareerForce.MN.gov already gets a half million pageviews by more than 50,000 job seekers each month.
- Leverage the statewide CareerForce network of workforce professionals who connect job seekers with jobs.
MDE has updated our Federal Updates webpage with recent communications and resources for schools and families, including the new resource, Learning Choices for Minnesota Families, for parents and caregivers. Other languages are available on the Federal Updates webpage. Please feel free to share this resource in your school communities.
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