Maintenance of Effort and IDEA Webinar July 22, 2010 FY 2011 Maintenance of Effort (MOE) forms are available at You may wish to print them for review during this Webinar.

What is MOE? § An LEA complies with Maintenance of Effort for purposes of establishing the LEAs eligibility for an award for a fiscal year if the LEA budgets for the education of children with disabilities, at least the same or total or per capita amount from either local funds or the combination of state and local funds as the LEA spent for the education of children with disabilities for the most recent prior year for which information is available. To Paraphrase: MOE means the district spent the same (or greater) amount of local and state funds on special education as it did the previous year.

Do cooperatives need to complete the Cooperative Only column on the MOE Composite Worksheet for cooperatives?

What are the repercussions if a district or cooperative does not meet MOE?

Why has the MOE worksheet and process changed?

On the district MOE worksheets that were calculated by ISBE, why did ISBE leave columns for Regular Education, Enrollment of Cost Programs and Totals?

Why didnt ISBE count local revenue on the MOE worksheet?

If payments are made on an outstanding FY10 obligation after the end of the fiscal year, can those payments be calculated as part of the FY10 AFR?

Is there still time to adjust the FY10 AFR?

What AFR lines did ISBE use to calculate MOE?

What MOE documentation must be sent to ISBE this year?

When are MOE documents due at ISBE?

Questions?