Preschool special education providers have been seeking salary parity with school districts for years. The inability for 4410s and 4201s to pay their teachers appropriate compensation has resulted in a mass exodus from providers, especially in New York City, where...
Special Education Organizations are going through significant challenges, spanning many different aspects programmatic, compliance, and fiscal areas, which we will be talking about over the next hour and a half … none more significant, in my opinion, then the declines...
When you have a child, you make many plans. One of the most important plans is for their future finances. This applies for any child, but when parents have a child with special needs often there is more concern. For parents that have a child who developed a...
Since the COVID pandemic started last March, many of you have gone on the defense, reacting to an onslaught of confusing, and sometimes ambiguous regulations, trying to develop plans of compliance, and hoping that definitive guidance would come within a time period...
What is EANS? Emergency Assistance for Nonpublic Schools (EANS) is part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 (CRRSA Act), the second federal economic stimulus package recently passed. The CRRSA Act created a fund that was...
According to the OMIG website, providers that receive Medicaid payments no longer have to perform an annual certification with the OMIG each December.
With the COVID pandemic, everyone has been forced to operate more remotely and this is even more prevalent in schools where remote learning is a standard, as parents are afraid to send their children to physical buildings or governmental regulations have prohibited in...
As a SED provider, I truly feel for you. You have had the unenviable task of having to pivot from in-person to remote learning, you have had to find ways to meaningfully connect with your students and their families, you have seen significant (20 to 25%) declines in...
In case you didn’t hear, the new CFR claiming manual and related software have been released. This is for CFRs for the year ended June 30, 2020. The NYS-issued CFR software is available for download on the CFRS Home Page. Due to the late release of the CFR software,...
