SAP News

SED’s State Aid Office has released the Claim Forms within SAMS for the 2026-27 Claim Year. Please reference this memo to see what changes are in store for us this 2026-27 Claim Year. ST-3 changes for the 2026-27 claim year can be found here. The statutory deadline...

A rebuild to the existing SAMS system will be released in phases, divided by business area within the new SAMS application. The first area, Building Projects, launched last Monday. This area was developed with user feedback and will provide users with a centralized...

The 180 Day Calendar for the 2026-27 School year is now available for district use. The 2027-28 School Year Model Calendar has been released for planning purposes only. Please use this link to download the calendars.

SED has issued guidance regarding June 21, 2027 (the Monday after Juneteenth) and how/if it should be counted towards the 180-day requirement. For additional information, please see SED’s posting. Based on this guidance, be sure to check your district calendar to...

These forms must be submitted electronically through the Building Project area in the State Aid Management System (SAMS) Rebuild.  Pursuant to New York State Education Law 3602 subdivision 6., districts must submit Bond (SA-132) and BAN (SA-135) borrowing forms for...

In August, the Office of Information Reporting Services (IRS) will finalize the SIRS and BEDS Online files containing Fall 2025 (BEDS Day 10/1/2025) enrollment and Economically Disadvantaged Counts used for State Aid purposes. After this time, districts will no longer...

Annual reporting of the names and amounts paid to attorneys that were engaged by the district are due 45 days after the year-end.  Use the NYSED Business Portal – SED Monitoring and Vendor Performance application to complete the Attorney Reporting by August 14th.  

Each school district that issued debt for bus purchases in 25-26 needs to report the debt terms by September 1st in the Schedule F6-Bus Amortization section in SAMS. There are now separate Schedule F6 forms for BANs and Bonds. No extensions are available for these...

All school districts and BOCES must respond to the Single Audit Threshold inquiry in Question 1 and either confirm that a Single Audit or Program-Specific Audit Reporting Package was uploaded to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC) or file the Single Audit Exemption...

Per Chapter 61 of the Laws of 2006, districts were allocated an EXCEL (Expanding our Children’s Education and Learning) apportionment under the EXCEL program. The 2026-27 Enacted Legislative Budget specified that districts’ apportionments will now only be available...