Upcoming Events
Online
Cross-Center 2025 Fiscal Webinar: Beyond the Budget: Collaborative Strategies for Using Fiscal Data to Strengthen Part C Programs
Learn how strong collaboration between Part C program and fiscal staff can enhance program effectiveness through shared data use.
Online
CIFR 2025 Fiscal Webinar: Strategies for Maximizing IDEA Part B State Set-Aside Funds
Join us to hear TA providers and states share strategies for effectively budgeting and managing state set-aside funds. Explore ways to navigate obstacles with CIFR’s Problems of Practice Framework. Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your state’s decision-making and impact.
Archived Events
In Person
Part B IDEA Fiscal Forum 2024
Purpose-Driven Data: Putting the “Why” Into Fiscal Processes
State directors of special education and IDEA fiscal specialists, TA providers from multiple centers, and OSEP staff gathered in Denver to discuss critical IDEA fiscal issues.
Online
CIFR 2024 Fiscal Webinar: How to Review IDEA Part B LEA Subgrant Applications Plus IDEA Fiscal Forum Preview
Examine LEA IDEA grant eligibility requirements and hear from Kansas about its application review processes. Learn what to expect at the Part B IDEA Fiscal Forum in Denver this May.
Online
CIFR 2024 Fiscal Webinar: Strategies for Implementing IDEA Part C Maintenance of Effort
Participants discussed how to meet the requirement and mitigate the risk of potential shortfalls as well as challenges and strategies.
Online
CIFR 2024 Fiscal Webinar: IDEA Part B Allocations to Charter School LEAs
Examined the requirements for base payment adjustments, openings and closures, and fiscal monitoring for charter school LEAs.
Online
CIFR 2023 Fiscal Webinars: Introduction to IDEA Part C Fiscal Requirements (Part 1 and Part 2)
Tailored to state staff who are new to their Part C fiscal responsibilities or who would like a refresher.
Online
CIFR 2023 Fiscal Webinar: SEA Enforcement Mechanisms Under IDEA Part B and Utah’s Experience
Dive deeper into the SEA enforcement mechanisms in OSEP’s general supervision guidance with NCSI and discuss implications for your state with colleagues across the country.
Online
CIFR 2023 Open Door Session: Unpacking the Fiscal Elements of OSEP’s New General Supervision Guidance
IDEA state fiscal staff met with CIFR TA staff to examine the implications of the guidance.
In Person
Workshop on Writing IDEA Part B Fiscal Procedures
State teams attended an in-person workshop in Washington, DC, to draft written procedures for subgrant allocations and subrecipient monitoring.
Online
Cross-Center 2023 Fiscal Webinar: Timely, Purposeful Expenditure of IDEA Funds
Part B and Part C state staff were invited to examine obligation and liquidation requirements and timelines, the grant funding cycle, and oversight responsibilities.
In Person
Part C IDEA Fiscal Forum 2023
The conference theme was Purpose-Driven Data: Putting the “Why” Into Fiscal Processes.
