Education Dept Extends Special Ed Reporting Rules Unchanged
Published Date: 12/4/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Education wants to keep collecting info from state and local schools about how they support students with disabilities, without changing the current process. This helps make sure schools are doing their job and keeps paperwork manageable. If you have thoughts, you can share them by February 2, 2026—no extra costs or new rules are coming.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
IDEA Part B Data Collection Extended
The Department of Education is extending without change its information collection under OMB Control Number 1820-0600 for Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The extension keeps the current reporting duties for State, Local, and Tribal educational agencies and reports an estimated 73,503 annual responses and 353,169 annual burden hours; comments are due by February 2, 2026.
What Data LEAs Must Keep
You (parents and students) should know the Department requires LEAs and States to collect and keep data in specific areas — including private schools and parentally placed private school students, State high cost funds, notifications about free or low-cost legal services, early intervening services, notices about hearing officers and mediators, State complaint procedures, and the LEA Part B application. The notice says those data categories will continue to be collected under the existing rules.
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