For attendance purposes, the FTE should be 1.0 for your school. And if
they are tested at your school - and I am supposing that they are - then
you are both the serving school and the home school. I think I am
"with" your principal on this.
Most likely your school is paying to have those students take the
classes at the vocational center. So your school should get the state
aid for those students. Therefore the attend Altamont high school all
day but some of their classes are held at another location.
At least that is my take on that. We don't have any students in that
boat but we used to at a prior district - but that was a long time ago
prior to SIS.
Charlie Niehaus wrote:
Geeks,
We have some students that spend half of their day at an area
vocational center taking classes there. The classes are taught by
vocational teachers at their building at another site and our students
are bussed to that site, they attend classes 1/2 a day and then bussed
back and they attend classes here the other 1/2 of the day. These
classes do show up on our course catalog, but it is a generic listing
(vocational technology) and not as the specific course they are taking
like Auto Body Repair or Nursing. In the past I would mark these kids
as FTE .5 for our school under serving school and the vocational
center as .5 FTE for serving. I have a new principal that is telling
me that they should be 1.0 serving here since it is "our class" that
is being taught at their building?? I was pretty sure he was wrong,
but when I go back and look at a few students that I knew were
vocational last year I only find a .5 FTE listing for our school and
nothing for the vocational school in their records - making it look
like the kid was 1/2 time here only.
Anyone know the correct way to code these kids?
Thanks in advance.
Charlie Niehaus
Altamont Unit #10 Community Unit Schools
7 S. Ewing Street
Altamont, IL 62411
Voice: 618-483-6193 ext. 238
Fax: 618-483-5399
Web: www.altamont.k12.il.us
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