Federal Reporting

Federal reporting to the Office of Special Education Programs.

North Dakota Part C Policy Package - exception (Updated May 2023)

North Dakota System of Payments - exception (Updated May 2023)

North Dakota has not received the FFY 2026 Part C Grant allocation from the Federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Section III of the FFY 2025 Grant Application will be updated as soon as the allocation amount has been received, per instructions from OSEP.

FFY 2026 Part C Grant Application - exception

Cost Allocation Plan:

Cost Allocation Plan - exception
Cost Allocation Approval Letter - exception

Public Comment Notice

Annually, the North Dakota IDEA Part C program is required to report to the federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) on 11 Indicators through the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR).

FFY 2024 - exception (Submitted Feb. 2, 2026)

FFY 2020-2025 APR Target Setting

Beginning in FFY 2020, the SSIP was report was included with the SPP/APR.

Evaluation Plan (Updated 2025)

Theory of Action (Updated 2024)

Annually, the North Dakota IDEA Part C program is required to report to the federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) on 12 Indicators through the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR). Beginning in FFY 2022, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) began including the Results Driven Accountability (RDA) Matrix (pg. 65), How The Department Made Determinations (pg. 78), and Level of Determination Letter (pg. 79) in the final State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR). The SPP/APR can be found on the North Dakota Early Intervention website under the ND Part C State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) section.

There are four categories of determination:

Meets Requirements
- A State’s 2025 RDA Determination is Meets Requirements if the RDA Percentage is at least 80%,10 unless the Department has imposed Specific Conditions on the State’s last three IDEA Part C grant awards (for FFYs 2022, 2023, and 2024), and those Specific Conditions are in effect at the time of the 2025 determination.
Needs Assistance
- A State’s 2025 RDA Determination is Needs Assistance if the RDA Percentage is at least 60% but less than 80%. A State would also be Needs Assistance if its RDA Determination percentage is 80% or above, but the Department has imposed Specific Conditions on the State’s last three IDEA Part C grant awards (for FFYs 2022, 2023, and 2024), and those Specific Conditions are in effect at the time of the 2025 determination.
Needs Intervention
- A State’s 2025 RDA Determination is Needs Intervention if the RDA Percentage is less than 60%.
Needs Substantial Intervention
- The Department did not make a determination of Needs Substantial Intervention for any State in 2025.

In FFY 2023, North Dakota Part C received a level of determination of “Meets Requirements”.

North Dakota Part C Interagency Agreement - exception

Regional Program Reports

Each year, the state of North Dakota must publish the performance of each of their Early Intervention providers. North Dakota has eight regions of service delivery for Early Intervention. There is one service coordinator or DD Program Management unit within each of those regions; however, there can be multiple Early Intervention Service (EIS) or Infant Development providers within a region. Also there are some Infant Development providers that have programs in multiple regions.

Monitoring reports and findings are issued to both the Infant Development program and the applicable Developmental Disabilities Program Management Unit within a region. These reports should be considered reflective of both the local Infant Development program and the DD Program Management.

FFY 2023 Comparison Table - exception