Please review an important message from Dr. John Keller regarding the December 1 Special Education Count found here. This message may be updated weekly so you may refer back each week to see any updates made. This information is also being shared out from the IDOE Special Education Department.

Census Date: Monday, Dec 1, 2025

Nightly Validations End: Tuesday, Dec 2, 20225 -

Manual Validation Available: Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025

Certification Starts: Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025

Certification Ends: Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025 4:00 pm E

The December Certification dashboard was made available Wednesday, 11/14/25. As with all dashboards, it is provided to assist LEAs with monitoring the number of Special Education records that have a certified status for the December 1, 2025 Special Education student count.

Office hours sessions are currently being scheduled with specific topics and open forum sessions. Please refer to the Calendar on the Upcoming Events page in Knowledge Hub. As the new school year begins, Office Hours sessions will again be offered on Tuesday and Thursday on certain weeks to accommodate Business Owner sessions on specific data sets.

Tuesday, 11/18/2025 - 1:00 - 2:30 pm - Focus on Special Education/December 1 count

Tuesday, 11/25/25 - 10:30 - 12:00 pm - Focus on Special Education/December 1 count

Tuesday, 12/02/2025 - 1:00 - 2:30 pm - Focus on Special Education/December 1 count

Tuesday, 12/09/2025 - 10:30 - 12:00 pm - Open forum

Tuesday, 12/16/2025 - 1:00 - 2:30 pm - Open forum

Tuesday, 12/23/2025 - Cancelled

Tuesday, 12/30/2025 - Cancelled

If a student is missing in TIDE but has an active School School Association (enrollment) record in DEX, check Ed-ID. Is the Race code in Ed-ID ‘unknown’? If so, it will be necessary to submit a Ed-ID update to correct the race code in Ed-ID.

RECENTLY UPDATED: Change Log - find the Change Log in the School Support Hub to find guidance documentation that has been updated.

• November 10, 2025 - Multilingual Learner program exit date guidance and template guidance updated

• October 29, 2025 - Enrollment Withdrawal Exit Codes - see updates to exit code 30 - Earned HS Equivalency

• October 28, 2025 - Enrollment Withdrawal Exit Codes - see update to exit code 26 - Missing - Education Interrupted or Terminated

• October 27, 2025 - Alternative Education guidance and template guidance - updated links to Alt Ed Programs

• October 10, 2025 - Enrollment Withdrawal descriptors - clarified exit code 10 - Poor health to address elementary and middle school students

RECENTLY UPDATED: DEX Reporting in Development - find the DEX Reporting in Development log in the Communications Hub. This log is provided to inform schools of items that are currently under consideration, approved for development, in development, or deployed to DEX.

RECENTLY UPDATED: Known & Resolved Issues - find the Known & Resolved Issues log in the Communications Hub of Knowledge Hub. This log provides the status of Known Issues related to DEX reporting.

REMINDER: Indiana’s New Good Cause Exemption Dashboard
A new public dashboard provides transparent reading data at the state-, corporation-, and school-level. In 2025, Indiana achieved an unprecedented nearly five percentage point increase in third grade literacy rates. Statewide, 73,500 of Indiana’s third grade students – or 87.3 percent – demonstrated proficient reading skills on the IREAD assessment. The new dashboard shows 2024-2025 IREAD pass rates for all school types, data on Good Cause Exemptions (GCE), and promotion status. Click here to view Indiana’s new IREAD Good Cause Exemption Dashboard.

The submission window for Alternative Education New Program Proposals for operation in the 2026-2027 school year that do not have a currently approved alternative education program is now open through March 31, 2026. The proposal link can be found here, under Documents and Resources. Currently approved alternative education programs that wish to establish a new alternative education program should consult with the IDOE’s Alternative Education Team for guidance. Contact IDOE’s Alternative Education Team with any questions. 

The following items are all RESOLVED concerns related to the GCE errors.

• RESOLVED: GCE-1 (Special Education program missing) is triggering for school that does not ‘own' or report the program record. IDOE is looking across all LEAs for the active program.

• RESOLVED: GCE-7 (Multilingual Learner program missing) is triggering for school that does not ‘own' or report the program record. IDOE is looking across all LEAs for the active program.

• RESOLVED: GCE-8 is triggering when a student was enrolled in grade 3 in the 2025 school year and exited prior to March 1, 2025. (Students will now receive GCE-9 warning message)

• GCE-8 is triggering for homeschooled students that receive SE services and have no IREAD test score for the 2025 school year. UPDATE: It is necessary to reach out to lschemel@doe.in.gov for assistance with resolving

• GCE-8 is triggering for homeschooled students that are not receiving SE services but are dual enrolled in a public school. UPDATE: It is necessary to reach out to lschemel@doe.in.gov for assistance with resolving

• RESOLVED: GCE-8 is triggering for single-day mobility records for students that are not enrolled in the current school year. UPDATE: NO GCE REASON IS NEEDED FOR THESE ONE DAY MOBILITY RECORDS.

As shared in other communications, secondary WBL hours and other details related to WBL experiences can be reported in InTERS. Hours can be input at any time of the year, and the hours will be recorded for students. This information should be reported for both CTE students and non-CTE students.

During the 2025-2026 school year, WBL hours must be reported in InTERS to count toward WBL requirements within relevant diploma seals. Guidance on WBL reporting can be found here, and questions can be shared with CTE@che.in.gov. Schools that may not currently utilize InTERS and need access can reach out to InTERS Specialist Jedd Vance at JVance@che.in.gov.