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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Reminder that NEO Staff data for EPS is due October 30, 2025.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Statistics as of today:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">64% of you have completed less than 50% of staff updates for your SAUs
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">31% of you have completed less than 25% of staff updates for your SAUs<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:2.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">11% of you haven’t started…<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Due to the tight timelines in place for the School Finance team to provide subsidy numbers to the State Budget Office and to the Legislature, we are unable to give extensions to allow extra time to enter staff data. Please make this a top
priority. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Maine DOE Data Team is providing a webinar on EPS staff certification and EF-S-05-Part 2 (Special Education Staff Reporting) tomorrow at Noon. You can register for the webinar at:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">________________________________________ <br>
</span> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
</span><b>Charlotte M. Ellis</b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <br>
Analyst – School Finance and Compliance Helpdesk<br>
Maine Department of Education</span> <br>
23 State House Station <br>
Augusta, Maine 04333-0023 <br>
<b>Email: </b><u><span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="mailto:charlotte.ellis@maine.gov">charlotte.ellis@maine.gov</a></span></u> <br>
<b>Phone</b>: 207-624-6625 <br>
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