For Texas SPED directors.

Texas SPED software for the new funding model.

Accord is built around TEA's new intensity-of-services funding model — the rubric every Texas district has to populate for every special-education student before the 2026–27 school year. It's also where your team logs services and tracks goal progress all year, for the same students.

Two-phase cycle diagram — funding determination in the summer and service-and-goal tracking across the school year, both anchored to the same imported IEPs.

The rubric just landed.

Twenty factors, five domains, eight intensity tiers, and up to two service groups.

For every student with an IEP, a district produces a determination — one of eight intensity tiers, plus up to two service groups. Districts report these to TEA in stages: a voluntary early submission by August 14, then at least half the district’s students by the October 8 PEIMS submission and the rest by December 3.

TEA published a tool to support the ratings, but it doesn’t scale to a district. A rater works one student at a time, with no way to save and return, and no top-down view for the district. A whole district’s determinations have to be consolidated by hand, one rater’s at a time.

Framework hierarchy diagram — twenty factors grouped into five domains, combining into eight intensity tiers, with service groups branching as a parallel track.

Funding determination.

See where every determination stands.

Accord drafts a determination for every student at import, so a rater starts from a proposed tier and service groups instead of a blank rubric. Confirming each rating happens with the IEP and TEA’s rubric in one view — no toggling, no losing work. As ratings come in, the director sees the district’s readiness in one place:

  • check_circleHow far along each rater is — drafted, in progress, done.
  • check_circleWhat’s flagged for a second look.
  • check_circleWhich students don’t have a current IEP.

How Accord handles the new funding model →

District funding dashboard — tier histogram across Tiers 1–8, service-group breakdown, per-campus filter, and pending-review queue.

Service and goal tracking.

Catch the gap while there's still time.

The same students you just classified for funding are the ones your team serves all year. In Accord, providers log each session as they go and record goal-progress data as it accumulates.

What builds up is the one picture a district has rarely been able to see throughout the year: what each IEP prescribes next to what was delivered, by student and by campus, closing the gap before it becomes a finding. Administrators get that visibility across the district, providers get a place to track progress toward each goal as they work, and parents can see their child’s progress between ARD meetings.

How service and goal tracking works for admins →

Director gap dashboard — prescribed-vs-delivered across the district, filterable by student, service type, and campus.

For Texas directors doing this now.

Built for the new determination requirement.

Accord exists for the work in front of you: a determination for every student with an IEP, done by the people who know those students, in time for the fall and winter submissions. It gives your raters a way through that work — the IEP and the rubric in one place, progress that saves, a draft to start from instead of a blank slate. From there, the determinations consolidate without the by-hand merge.

The same students' IEPs name the services your team provides and the goals they work toward all year. Accord keeps that visible too — what each IEP prescribes next to what's delivered, by student and by campus.

See how Accord handles the new framework on a sample Texas district.

You'll see the district view across the tiers and service groups, the wizard your case managers will use, and the prescribed-and-delivered picture by campus.