The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) is responsible for ensuring that all special education programs in public schools are appropriate and effective. To do this, school districts must submit a Special Education Plan every three years to PDE as required under 22 Pa. Code § 14.104. The school district’s Special Education Plan outlines planning generated from district special education data, compliance monitoring, professional development activities, and training necessary to provide appropriate programs to students with disabilities.

The special education plan will continue to be developed in the Future Ready Comprehensive Planning Portal (FRCPP). The first step to gaining access to the FRCPP is to ensure that you are a registered user on the PDE Portal. If you are not a registered user, please register using the Register a Username and Log In instructions.

Your school district’s Local Security Administrator can add/remove users in MyPDESuite. If you need help adding users to the new portal, please use the step-by-step guide for Accessing the Future Ready Comprehensive Planning Portal. If you do not know who your Local Security Administrators are, you can find this information by clicking on Find my Security Administrator on the main webpage in MyPDESuite.

School districts in Phase 2 must submit their plans by May 1, 2026, in the FRCPP.

For guidance on Completing and Submitting School District Special Education Plans, please refer to the linked training course: School District Special Education Plan Training.

Additionally, for guidance on completing Special Education Plan Revision Notices (SEPRNs), please refer to linked training course: SEPRN Training.

Those with questions should contact Sandy Zeleznik in PDE’s Bureau of Special Education at RA-EDSpecEdPlanFRCPP@pa.gov.

To view the entire memo, including the list of Phase 2 school districts, click here.