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Subject: Assurance Statement Procedures for FY
07
Source: Margaret Strecker, Director, Compliance and Linda Sneller, Director,
Funds Management
Intended Audience: All agencies serving children with disabilities, ages
3-21
Date: May 1, 2006
Each responsible public agency in the state that provides services to
students with disabilities must submit annual assurances to DESE regarding
their compliance with the provision of those services. Again this year, as
we do not yet have final federal regulations implementing the
Reauthorization of IDEA 2004, assurance statements will require districts to
affirm that they will implement all provisions of the federal statute, as
amended, as well as all state and federal regulations that do not conflict
with the federal statute, throughout the period of the grant award.
This year's assurance statements have been emailed to each agency's chief
administrative officer and special education contact person, including those
agencies that do not open an ECSE or Part B budget with the Funds Management
Section. This includes state board operated programs (SSSH, MSD, and MSB),
other state agencies (DYS, DOC, and DMH), charter schools, and component
districts of special school districts (St. Louis and Pemiscot Counties).
Component districts in St. Louis County that manage their own ECSE programs
must submit an assurance statement that will be provided to them via e-mail
to St. Louis County SSD for their K-12 programs and maintain the assurance
statement on file in their district for the ECSE program. The assurance
statements and instructions for completing them are posted on the following
webpage
http://dese.mo.gov/divspeced/Compliance/IDEA_ReAu2004/Assurances.html.
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