Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) and Comprehensive Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CCEIS)
Coordinated early intervening services (CEIS) are services to help children who need additional academic or behavioral support to be successful in school. They can include professional development and educational and behavioral evaluations, services, and supports (see 34 CFR §300.226(b); 34 CFR §300.646(d)(1)(i)). Under the IDEA, the provision of CEIS can be voluntary or mandatory.
Voluntary CEIS is defined by regulations under 34 CFR §300.226. These regulations allow public educational agencies (PEAs) to use up to 15 percent of their combined IDEA Part B Section 611 and Section 619 funds to implement voluntary CEIS. The activities can be divided into any portion between section 611 and section 619.
IDEA regulations guiding the mandatory provision of CEIS — referred to as comprehensive coordinated early intervening services (CCEIS)— were revised in 2016. These regulations require LEAs identified by their states as having significant disproportionality based on race or ethnicity to reserve 15 percent of their combined IDEA Part B Section 611 and Section 619 funds to implement CCEIS. States must identify disproportionality with respect to identification, placement, and/or disciplinary removals. CCEIS is defined by regulations at 34 CFR §300.646(d). If your PEA was required to provide CCEIS, please contact ESS Program Management for further information as these PEAs are required to provide further information beyond grant reports.
Voluntary CEIS activities that may be funded under Part B for students not on an individualized education plan (IEP) by PEAs include:
- Providing professional development for teachers and other school staff to enable such personnel to deliver scientifically-based academic and behavioral interventions, including scientifically based literacy instruction and, where appropriate, instruction on the use of adaptive and instructional software; and
- Providing educational and behavioral evaluations, services, and supports, including scientifically based literacy instruction (see 34 CFR §300.226(b)).
Additionally, the students must be receiving services through one of the CEIS funded activities to be counted as a student receiving CEIS services:
- Professional development - students served by personnel who participated in professional development activities supported by CEIS funds;
- School-wide intervention initiatives - students who participated in school-wide intervention initiative activities supported with CEIS funds should be counted as receiving CEIS as follows;
- Educational and behavioral evaluations - students who are evaluated to determine the supports necessary for success in a general education environment should be counted as receiving CEIS in the year of evaluation; or
- Direct services and supports - students receiving direct service or supports supported with CEIS funds should be counted every year in which they receive the services
PEAs are required to report how many students received CEIS services into AzEDS. Please refer to the Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) Reporting in Arizona Educational Data Standards (AzEDS) Technical Assistance Manual for assistance.
Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) FAQ
Comprehensive Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CCEIS) FAQ
