There are two different reasons to report this information to the
state. One is for attendance and one is for testing. As far as I know,
SIS is for testing.
So, if the student is tested at your school and your school is the home
school, the student's FTE should be 1.0 and your are the home school and
the testing school.
If the student is tested (and served) elsewhere but you are the home
school, the FTE is 1.0 and set the home and testing schools accordingly.
For attendance, if your receive the state aid for the student and then
pay tuition for the student to be served elsewhere, this is YOUR student
and you report the attendance to the state (and then get the state aid.)
But if you call and ask you may get different answers depending on who
you talk to. That is the major issue.
All you can do is to follow your principals direction. He is the one
who is paid to know these things, not the tech coordinator.
Steele, Thomas C wrote:
To my knowledge we have always considered career center students as our
full-time student and listed the career center courses in our catalog as your
new principal has said. I can't say with 100% certainty that is correct, but
it has worked for us. This whole thing is a confusing mess - with career
centers, alternative education centers, out-placed services, etc. - hard to
tell what to put when!
-TS
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[mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Niehaus
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 8:07 AM
To: tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org
Subject: [tech-geeks] SIS FTE Question
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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