In determining the maximum salary that can be paid to a special education school’s executive director, assistant executive director, and chief financial officer, SED publishes each year the median salary paid to executive directors (ED) and assistant executive...
These have been challenging times for providers, especially 4410 providers. After coming off 7 years (4410) and 5 years (853) without rate increases, we have seen 2 to 4% increases over the last few years, which while positive, is just not large enough to keep up with...
You’ve filed your cost report, the holidays are over, and the cold weather is here. Time to grab a blanket, a hot cocoa (with marshmallows of course), and curl up with some scintillating reading … that’s right, the fiscal 2017 RCM. Why not, it’s got drama, action, and...
The OSC has issued its 2016 Annual Report on Preschool Special Education Audit Initiative. This is the summary of all the reports issued by the OSC during 2016. Through December 2016, the OSC has completed and issued 89 audits of special education providers, including...
If you are funded by the New York State Education Department (“SED”) and your fiscal year ends on June 30th, you hopefully filed your Consolidated Fiscal Report (“CFR”) by the December 1st deadline. Now you can breathe a sense of relief that another year has gone by...
In responding to OSC audits, the NYSED’s rate setting unit has been accepting OSC’s findings, claiming they do not have the discretion to reject or modify such findings, pursuant to a lawsuit that occurred several years ago. On October 1st, the Board of Regents...
The new reimbursable cost manual (“RCM”) for the 2016/2017 fiscal year has been issued. These are the regulations that you will be held to for fiscal 2017 when completing your 2017 CFR and what the OSC will use in conducting its audits of the 2017 fiscal year. The...
A controversial piece of federal legislation known as HR 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, was introduced into the legislative process on April 20, 2016. The bill’s sponsor has stated that the bill will save money and give schools more...
On June 30, 2016, Governor Cuomo signed legislation allowing Early Intervention (EI) and special education providers to continue to utilize school psychologists to provide psychological services to the children they serve through June 30, 2018. Unlike SED pre-school...
