Verification Report 2
School Age Child Count by Age and Disability
(Students Receiving Special Education Services on October 1, 2008)

Description of Report

Below is a report of school age students with disabilities for whom the school district has Committee on Special Education (CSE) responsibility by disability and discreet age. Students with the following records are included in this report:

• Enrollment record with reason for beginning enrollment code “0011”, “5905” , “5544”, “5654”, “7000”, “7011”; and
• Enrollment record with enrollment beginning date on or before snapshot date and no ending date or an ending date after the snapshot date; and
• Building of Enrollment code is a valid code in SEDREF ; and
• Student’s date of birth is between 09/01/1987 and 12/31/2003; and
• A disability Programs Fact record with a valid code for a school-age student with a disability from Appendix 9 of SIRS Manual for the 2008-09 School Year (codes 0352, 0363, 0385, 0396, 0407, 0418, 0429, 0440, 0451, 0462, 0473, 0484, 0495); and
• A Special Education Snapshot record with all of the following data elements:
  • Snapshot Date of October 1, 2008
  • Primary Placement Type
  • Least Restrictive Environment Code for school age setting (from Appendix 15 of SIRS Manual for the 2008-09 School Year).

Also included with this verification report is a listing of students who are excluded from the report below. These students’ records should be reviewed by school districts for accuracy to verify that they indeed do not meet all the criteria listed above to be included in the report below. The criteria for excluding students from the report below are as follows:

• Students are school age students between the ages of 4 and 21; and
  There is an active enrollment record on snapshot date; and
  There is an active disability Programs Fact record with a disability code for school age students on snapshot date; and
  There is no Special Education Snapshot record.
               OR
• Students are school age students between the ages of 4 and 21; and
  There is an active enrollment record on snapshot date; and
  There is no active disability Programs Fact record with a disability code for school age students on snapshot date; and
  There is a Special Education Snapshot record.

The reasonability checks described below will be conducted based on the data in this report and the data included in the 2007-08, VR 2 report. School districts with the discrepancies described below will be required to provide an explanation for the discrepancy.

• There is no reasonability check planned for this report, this year, however, school districts are encouraged to review their totals provided in this report and compare them with the total numbers reported in 2007-08 VR 2 report

Verification Report 2
School Age Child Count by Age and Disability
(Students Receiving Special Education Services on October 1, 2008)

Directions: Please review the data below to verify each student’s disability and age as of October 1, 2008 for all school age students with disabilities (aged 4-21) for whom your district has CSE responsibility and who were receiving special education services on the snapshot date. The links below the numbers in each cell provide a list of students that meet the criteria to be included in the report. Also, please review your school district’s report of students excluded from this report. If corrections are needed to this report, please resubmit your district files with the necessary corrections to the Regional Information Center (or the data warehouse for large cities) during the verification time period.

Line Number	Disability (As of Snapshot Date)	Age as of October 1, 2008
		4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Total
01	Autism
02	Emotional Disturbance
03	Learning Disability
04	Mental Retardation
05	Deafness
06	Hearing Impairment
07	Speech or Language Impairment
08	Visual Impairment (includes Blindness)
09	Orthopedic Impairment
10	Other Health Impairment
11	Multiple Disabilities
12	Deaf-Blindness
13	Traumatic Brain Injury
14	Total (Lines 1-13)

 

Statement of Assurance that will need to be checked: Clicking the button will certify data displayed in VR1-6 and VR8 reports. Clicking this button will stop any additional data refreshes into these reports from the Level 2 data warehouse. The data that you certify in these reports will be the Department's official record of your special education data. There is no certification required for the VR7 and VR9 reports. Please mail a signed copy of the Certification and Assurance Form to SEDCAR on or shortly after you certify these data. This form will become available on the menu, under 2008-09, under October Verification Reports after you click the button to certify your data.