Useless Knowledge
This fruit floats in water because 25% of its volume is air.
What is an apple?
This FMAU team member has planted roots in education by working with the Agriculture Incentive Grant.
Who is Laura?
This federal law ensures services to children with disabilities throughout the nation, including California.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
This bear appears on the California state flag.
What is a grizzly bear?
This unique identifier replaced the DUNS number and is now required for all entities receiving federal funds.
What is a UEI (Unique Entity Identifier)?
The dot over a lowercase “i” or “j” has this peculiar name.
What is a tittle?
This FMAU team member knows how to keep things lively—juggling kids, chickens, and dune buggy adventures!
Who is Emily?
As of 2023, according to the SED Webpage, approximately this many students with disabilities are served under IDEA in California.
What is over 800,000?
This California city is known as the “Avocado Capital of the World.”
What is Fallbrook?
This is the term for when a grantee fails to submit required reports on time.
What is noncompliance?
According to scientists, this animal’s milk is pink.
What is a hippopotamus?
This FMAU staff member could take your fiscal questions to new heights—they are a Federally Certificated Flight Instructor.
Who is Leah?
This group of regional consortia coordinates special education services and compliance efforts across California’s local educational agencies.
What are SELPAs (Special Education Local Plan Areas)?
This iconic California-born fast food chain is known for its palm tree logo.
What is In-N-Out Burger?
the required documentation that shows why a cost is necessary, reasonable, and allocable.
What is cost justification?
A group of flamingos is charmingly called this.
What is a flamboyance?
This team member brings a big idea to the stage—literally.
Who is Alexa?
This type of educational setting is prioritized under IDEA, requiring that students with disabilities be educated with their nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
This uniquely California holiday is on March 31.
What is César Chávez Day?
FMAU monitors both of these federal grant types, identified by the numbers 611 and 619.
What are IDEA Part B grants?
This U.S. president had a pet alligator in the White House.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This FMAU team member is as grounded and dependable as their star sign—born under the sign of the bull.
Who is Betty, the Taurus?
The CDE’s system for addressing complaints, mediations, and due process hearings is known by this acronym.
What is DRDP (Desired Results Developmental Profile)?
Most people guess Yosemite, but this national recreation area actually welcomes the most visitors of any in the National Park System in California.
What is Golden Gate National Recreation Area?
If a district fails to maintain its level of state and local funding for special education from year to year, it may violate this federal requirement.
What is MOE (Maintenance of Effort)?