Special Education Fiscal Report

School districts, CESAs, and CCDEBs must file both budget and annual Special Education Fiscal Reports with the Department of Public Instruction. The Special Education Fiscal Report consists of a data file created by the Special Education Fiscal Report Program (PI 1505 SE). A data file must be submitted twice a year, once for budget data and once for actual data.

Accessing the PI 1505 SE: The PI 1505 SE program must be downloaded and installed at the district. It only needs to be installed ONCE. This program does not change from year to year and does NOT need to be reinstalled each year. (NOTE: If you do reinstall it, you will overwrite your database file and any data from previous year will be gone. To save your data, copy the file "sped2.db" to a save location.)

Special Education Fiscal Report Program Installation Notes
Program User Guide PDF document (reference when installing and using the program)

Download and Install PI 1505 SE Program

Alternative Method of Installation for PI 1505 SE Program (to be used if the traditional "install" does not work)

Special Education Reporting Questions and Answers

Submitting Data: Please send your completed PI-1505-SE Annual and Budget Special Education data files as an attachment to: DPIsfsreports@dpi.wi.gov. Indicate on the subject line the name of the school and the title of the report, "PI-1505-SE Annual" or "PI-1505-SE Budget".

Reporting Aidable Guidance and Nurse Expenses on the PI 1505 SE: Any guidance (213000) and nurse (214000) expenses should be reported in the appropriate object and project, function 299999, with the exception of project code 011 expenses. Project code 011 expenses should be reported in the 299999, project code 019 line. Districts will then be required to download, complete, and email the following spreadsheet when emailing the text file of the PI 1505 SE report. Wisconsin Act 221 District Reconciliation

Amending and Correcting the PI 1505 SE:

How to Amend the PI 1505SE Report

Special Education Does Not Equal SAFR Annual

Reporting Salary Expense With No Fringe Expense

Reporting Fringe Expense With No Salary Expense

Identifying and Accounting for Deductible Receipts

Open Enrollment Tuition and Deductible Receipts

Reporting a Deductible Receipt in the SE Annual

Reporting Aidable Transportation Expense - Object 300

Reporting Aidable Transportation Expense - Object 700

Reporting Aidable OT/PT Expense - Object 310

Reporting Homebound Travel With No Salary Or Fringes