������

The Texas Education Agency (������) is committed to ensuring that all Texas local education agencies (LEAs) provide eligible students with high-quality special education services. This letter provides notification to local educational agencies (LEAs) that for the school year (SY) 2024–2025, there will be an SPPI clarifications period conducted by the Division of Monitoring Review and Support at the Texas Education Agency (������). LEAs may submit evidence of pre-finding corrections before findings are issued by the ������ for state performance plan indicator (SPPI) 11a (Timely Initial Evaluations), 11b (Eligibility Determination), SPPI 12 (Early Childhood Transition), or SPPI 13 (Secondary Transition) with less than 100% compliance. Unclarified SPPI 11a, 11b, 12, or 13 noncompliance will result in a corrective action plan (CAP). 

LEAs who opt to participate in the clarification process are not guaranteed pre-finding correction of noncompliance. Pre-finding correction may occur during the clarification process when the LEA has violated an IDEA requirement, but the ������ has not yet issued a finding of noncompliance and can verify, before issuing a finding, that an LEA: 

(1) is correctly implementing the specific regulatory requirements (i.e., achieved 100 percent compliance with the relevant IDEA requirements) based on a review of updated data such as data subsequently collected through monitoring (Evidence of policies and procedures, training, self-monitoring); and 
(2) if applicable, has corrected each individual case of child-specific noncompliance, unless the child is no longer within the jurisdiction of the LEA; and 
(3) has no existing corrective action under a ������ complaint or due process hearing decision for the child (child-specific compliance); then, this would be considered “pre-finding correction.” (OSEP 23-01, B-11)

SPPI Data Submission Deadline

The SPPI clarification period utilizes data submitted for SPPI 11a, SPPI 11b, and SPPI 12 to the TSDS Child Find collection and data submitted for SPPI 13 to the SPPI application in the Texas Education Agency Login (������L) by the following deadlines:

• TSDS Child Find collection data submission (including SPPI 11a, SPPI 11b, and SPPI 12) due July 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.
• SPPI-13 data submission due August 8, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.

The compliance target for each SPP indicator is 100% (see FFYs 2020–2025 Part B SPP/APR Measurement Table). After the SPP indicator data submission process, LEAs that met the submission deadline for each indicator and reported less than 100% compliance will have the opportunity to make “corrections before findings of noncompliance” are issued.

SPPI Clarification Process

During the SPPI clarification window, September 16 - September 30, 2025, LEAs will have the opportunity to submit documentation to address findings of noncompliance. LEAs may correct data entry errors and provide documentation of correction for noncompliance based on two criteria (see ):

• Child Specific Noncompliance: Correction of Child Specific Noncompliance
• Systemic Compliance: Implementation of regulatory requirements for SPPI compliance indicators 

The SPPI clarification process includes four steps and applies to SPPI 11a, SPPI 11b, SPPI 12, and SPPI 13:

1. Notification of Potential Noncompliance and Option to Participate in SPPI Clarifications
   • LEA is notified of noncompliance finding(s)
   • LEA selects one of the following participation options:
     • opt out of clarification, verifying noncompliance
     • participate in the SPPI clarification process 
   • Based on LEA selection, Monitoring, Review, and Support staff provide SPPI clarification dates and guidance to submit clarification documentation to the LEA. 
2. LEA Submission of Clarification Data
   • LEA submits clarification data the LEA is correctly implementing the specific regulatory requirements to evidence systemic compliance and prevent future noncompliance for SPPI 11a, SPPI 11b, SPPI 12, and SPPI 13 via the Ascend Texas Application via Texas Education Agency Login (������L)
   • LEA submits corrected child-specific noncompliance verification for data submitted in both the TSDS Child Find collection (SPPI 11a, SPPI 11b, SPPI 12, and SPPI 13) and the ������L SPPI application for SPPI 13.
3. Review of Clarifications Data Submission
   • Verification of each individual case of identified child-specific noncompliance.
   • Verification of documentation evidencing systemic correction to prevent future noncompliance submitted via the Ascend Texas Application via ������L.
4. Determination of Noncompliance and SPPI Notification
   • Evidence submitted during the clarification period is reviewed and compliance determinations made for LEAs. Participation in the clarification process does not automatically correct an LEA’s noncompliance. 
   • LEAs with noncompliance findings for SPPI 11a, SPPI 11b, SPPI 12 and/or SPPI 13 following the SPPI Clarification process will receive notification of noncompliance requiring corrective action in October.

SPPI Clarifications Resources

• State Performance Plan Indicator Data Overview 
• SPPI Clarification Process 
• SPPI Clarification Process Participation Considerations 
• SPPI Child-specific Corrections Verification Workbook (Excel)
• SPPI Attestation Form 

The following resources provide guidance for the SPPI data collection and measurement requirements:

• State Performance Plan Indicators
• ������ SPPI 11 Timely Initial Evaluation and Eligibility Determination
• ������ SPPI 12 Early Childhood Transition
• ������ SPPI 13 Secondary Transition

Contact

For questions about the SPPI clarifications process, please contact the Division of Monitoring, Review, and Support by email at ReviewandSupport@tea.texas.gov.

For questions about the TSDS Child Find collection (SPPI-11 and SPPI-12), please contact your respective ESC TSDS Child Find Champion or TSDS Technical Champion ( or ). Support can also be obtained from the Texas Education Agency (������) by submitting a TSDS Incident Management System (TIMS) ticket within the TSDS Portal.

For questions about the SPPI-13 data collection in ������L, please contact your respective ESC or email spp@tea.texas.gov.